Laurence, Daughter of the Glacier
Through her projects, Swiss photographer and graphic designer Laurence Piaget-Dubuis explores environmental issues, focusing primarily on the melting of glaciers
Through her projects, Swiss photographer and graphic designer Laurence Piaget-Dubuis explores environmental issues, focusing primarily on the melting of glaciers
In this excerpt from an interview, she speaks about her relationship with these giants of ice.
The disappearance of glaciers are a central theme in my film The Invisible Mountains. They hold a crucial place in the ancient myths and legends of the Val d’Anniviers, as they do in many other Alpine valleys. Sacred sites for pagan ancestors, spaces of purgatory for the dead, they have today become tourist attractions prized for their photogenic beauty, but above all, powerful symbols of climate change.
In my film, the glaciers serve as a metaphor for a broader disappearance: a way of seeing the world that the ancients cultivated, one that intertwined the material world with an invisible world that was equally important.
