In late August 2004, Hannes von der Fecht, a 25-year-old student in photography at the Bremen University of Arts, joined the Arctic Coring Expedition (IODP Expedition 302) to document it from an artistic point of view. This expedition operated by the ECORD Science Operator (ESO) with an international team of scientists and technicians and three icebreakers, recovered the first extensive series of sediment cores from the Arctic Ocean seabed. The sediment cores that were collected provide insights into the climate and environmental history of the Arctic Basin over the past 55 million years and longer.

His photographic exhibition, supported by ECORD, the Bremen University of Arts, and the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins at Bremen University, entitled "Journey into the Ice", consists of 20 pictures and is available for loan upon request.


Credit: photo ECORD/IODP by H.van der Fecht

Technical Details of the Photographic Exhibition:
The exhibition consists of 20 photographs, all glued on aluminium plates:

For institutions/museums who want to borrow the travelling exhibit, the following informations are important:

Contact: Albert Gerdes, MARUM, University of Bremen.


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Journey into the Ice / A Photographic Exhibition by Hannes von der Fecht