.PaulNicklen has been appointed to the Order of Canada. Congratulations! Here is some of his work capturing the beauty of both poles, featured in Maclean's:
Paul Nicklen Arctic 1 / 6 Emperor Penguins shot from the Mario Zuchelli Base, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Tuxedo swimming Emperor Penguins shot from the Mario Zuchelli Base, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Penguins at Floe Edge at Cape Washington.
Award-winning photographer Paul Nicklen, the only Canadian on National Geographic magazine’s photojournalist roster, was born on a farm outside Tisdale, Sask., and now lives on Vancouver Island. But he spent 42 of his 45 years living in Canada’s three northern territories, and it was there, particularly during three boyhood years in the tiny Baffin Island community of Kimmirut , that Nicklen became an artist and a polar obsessive.
Nicklen’s love of polar ecosystems, “beautiful creatures that rely on healthy ice,” has more recently sent him to Antarctica, where the differences in animal attitudes, rather than animal species, made his work entirely different than what he did in the North. “In the Arctic, everything is hunted, everything is scared, everything has its flight response—you might wait three weeks to get a great shot of a polar bear—so you’re always trying to work out different stealth scenarios.
The photographer might make light of the dangers of his work—“the only skill I really have is I’m better at freezing than anybody else in the photography world”—but he knows otherwise. “I’ve crashed two airplanes, I’ve ended up upside down in a lake, I’ve run out of air under the ice twice,” Nicklen says matter-of-factly. “Both times, I didn’t think I was going to make it, so you’re always pushing that fine line.
Not that Nicklen plans on retiring. Love and a sense of urgency drive him on, a gnawing worry over the rapid disappearance of the healthy ice that sustains the inhabitants, human and animal, of the polar regions. He wants people in the South to look, really look, while they still can. “The only emotion that’s more powerful than fear is hope, and I just keep trying to share that message, dig a little deeper into people’s consciences, into their hearts, to alter their behaviour.
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