Southern Exposure: Images from Antarctica

Head On Photo Festival 2012

Peter McMahon and Paul Mallam

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Dates: 12 May 2012 - 26 May 2012

Location: terrainphotography 88 George Street Redfern NSW 2016 Australia

Hours: 17 -19 May and 24-26 May 11am to 5pm

Entry Fee: Free

Exhibition Event:

Official Opening 12/05/2012 6:00 am

In 2011 Peter McMahon and Paul Mallam travelled to the Antarctic Peninsular. These photographs document that journey, from the desolate and brooding Antarctic Mountain Range to the strange reassuring world of the Vernadsky Research Station, home to an outpost of Ukrainian scientists. The exhibition conveys the raw and alien sense of the Antarctic, which remains the most challenging place on earth for human beings, on the 100th anniversary of Amundsen’s successful expedition to the South Pole. Most of all, the photographs show the contradiction of Antarctica, which is so vast and forbidding, yet is falling victim to global warming.