The Iceberg series has been shot in Iceland in October 2014, in the lagoons of Jökulsárlón and Fjallsárlón. The colors of these icebergs range from turquoise to deep blue, but also yellow for the presence of volcanic sulphur, black because of the ashes, and white. Jökulsárlón is the biggest and best known glacier lake in Iceland. One of its most surprising characteristics is the presence of numerous icebergs that drift from the water lake of the Breiðamerkurjökull to the sea. Today the ocean is about 350 meters from the lagoon, but it gets closer at the speed of 10 meters per year. If the ocean wins over the debris that still protect the lagoon, Jökulsárlón would be invaded by the oceanic waters and would rapidly turn into a vast gulf delimited at its north end by the Vatnajökull, the biggest european glacier about 8400 square kilometers. A vast area of southern Iceland would change morphology, as the life of southern icelanders. On the strip created by the debris that separates the lagoon from the ocean runs the only road that connects the south with the east of the country. if the strip was to disappear there would be no more way of communication between the two parts of the country, unless going north for hundreds of kilometers around the Vatnajökull.
Gioia Valerio Photography 