Joshua Holko encountered his first iceberg in, appropriately perhaps, Iceland. It was 2006 and the Melbourne native was at that stage still earning a living in the corporate world. But when man met ice, a passionate interest was born that would lead him to a new career as a photographer of the world’s polar and sub-polar regions.
Asked what it was that first drew him to the bitterly cold and remote ends of the earth, he said, ‘It was a combination of factors. One of the big things was that when you’re that far north (or south), you have hours of golden light for photography. Where I live in Australia, we have really harsh, contrasty light most of the time. You only get nice soft light for two minutes or…