Blue Ice
by Alex Bernasconi, Papadakis, £30, hardback, 204 pages, ISBN 978-1-90650-658-2
JUST outside of our own planet (actually 33.9 million miles), we're beginning to see that Mars, as well as a host of other planets, carry qualities that are rather similar to our own home world. The presence of water is a thrilling development in our quest to understand our galaxy, but that's not to say that Earth isn't still capable of presenting us with seemingly alien environments. The Antarctic is a vista that is at once sublime and, at times, frighteningly hostile. It takes a special photographer to be able to convey these dual qualities in one image, and Alex Bernasconi has achieved this with a series of beautiful images. There's a quality to each frame that draws…
