‘Dead Ice’ examines two long-term projects (‘Ice Field’ and ‘Negative Mass’) that question whether ‘photography can facilitate an intimate connection with a fragile landscape so alien to our everyday environment?’. In response to this query, both projects have employed a methodology that simulates scientific ‘fieldwork’, where observation and data collection provide insights into specific environments. This fieldwork is centred around the unique site-specific possibilities of the photographic medium and goes beyond the expected landscape image. This camera-less process creates a direct relationship between landscape and medium, therefore the photogram becomes the location where site, space and matter are directly connected. The works in ‘Dead Ice’ were made with simple materials but speak to a poignant and layered issue we are confronted with on a global scale: the gradual melting of ice caps and glaciers in this age of climate change.