Has anyone seen this? Gregory Colbert is a Canadian artist whose large-scale photographic works deal with the interaction between human beings and animals. His exhibition, Ashes and Snow, is currently hanging in the Nomadic Museum (an interesting piece of architecture by the Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban) at pier 54, NYC. There are photographs of Colbert swimming with marine mammals such as manatees, sperm whales and humpback whales which can also be seen at www.ashesandsnow.org
Some of the images are rather amazing, not to mention that it must have been rather dangerous (and perhaps illegal) to get so close to the whales?
Theres a very intelligent critique of the exhibition by Roberta Smith of The New York Times at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3DC143CF931A25750C0A9639C8B63
Some of the images are rather amazing, not to mention that it must have been rather dangerous (and perhaps illegal) to get so close to the whales?
Theres a very intelligent critique of the exhibition by Roberta Smith of The New York Times at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E3DC143CF931A25750C0A9639C8B63
