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Minimalist Photographs of Shackleton’s Rocks With Tag ID’s

I’m loving these minimal images, they’re from Thom Atkinson’s photographs of rock samples from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition of 1908. They appear in the latest issue of Draft magazine. This reminds me of when I used to collect rocks on my grandparents rock beach in Maine.

Description of the project:

“Draft asked me to photograph a collection of rock samples gathered by Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic,” says Atkinson of the project, which appears in issue six of the magazine. “They were printed alongside rare original documentary photographs of the expedition itself. The rock samples and original prints are currently in possession of the Archive of Modern Conflict from which this issue of the magazine was curated.”

Thom Atkinson’s site here.

via CR Blog.