Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing panorama in a point-cloud

Armed with drones, helicopters and military-grade software program, a British photographer has developed a new option to keep in mind glaciers

By Simon Ings

THIS ethereal picture reveals a surreal, not-quite human view of the Argentière Glacier within the Chamonix. Since 2014, the artist Dan Holdsworth has been making surveys of the area, typically using helicopters and drones to seize tons of of photographs of the ice sheet. These have now been digitally composited into one massive transferring picture. The result’s a shifting panorama of unprecedented topographic element. Projected on two going through partitions on the new Northern Gallery for Modern Artwork in Sunderland, UK, the animation transforms photographic stills right into a composite “point-cloud”. Utilizing new experimental approaches …