Enzo Barracco, who lived in Palermo, then in London and now in New York, from fashion photography he landed, almost by chance, in educational projects for a new sustainability. This is how “Antarctica” was born, a journey, a look, a book and a series of exhibitions.
“I was inspired by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton the English explorer who left with the expedition in 1914 Endurance towards the Antarctic, ”he says. «His adventure is unique: his ship was trapped in the ice until it sank, leaving the 28 crew members thousands of kilometers from the first inhabited lands and in one of the most inhospitable territories.
Yet Sir Shackleton managed to bring all the men to safety by crossing the ocean with three lifeboats and an extraordinary mastery of navigation. His story is comparable to that of an astronaut today who loses his spacecraft in space, and despite everything he finds the solution to re-enter the earth. I admired his courage and determination. It was he who took me to the Antarctic, a place that I hardly knew before reading its history ».
Thus, with a fortuitous encounter with a story full of inspiration, Enzo Barracco set out on a journey to the Antarctic, changing his career and inaugurating a new life. And that’s how the 2016 book was born – The Noise of Ice – Antartica – and the first exhibition in London (with an exhibition in the pipeline in New York, followed by a world tour, with a stop also in Milan).
How was the impact with the Antarctic? «The first sensation I had was that of landing on another planet. We started from Ushuaia and we crossed a stretch of the ocean considered the most stormy in the world… In six days we arrived on the continent, exploring the coast and with some landings. The feeling of distance is very strong, the beauty is enormous. It is a primitive and wild place, I thought I knew beauty by working in fashion, but I saw beauty there. The shapes and colors are something unique, I wanted to photograph it in a raw, honest way. The cover of the book looks like an explosion of ice, it looks like a diamond. It’s beautiful, but it’s also dramatic because it’s a melting iceberg and for this it is upside down, showing its forms. Few people see it, but this is the reality of what’s going on. Behind these photos, which seem calm, there is the world moving on, there is the tragedy of climate change. And so my photographs have a double value, the artistic one, the beauty of colors and shapes, and at the same time there is the reality of this place. It was important to open a dialogue with the reality of climate change in which we must all participate.
Enzo’s next project wanted to look again at nature and broaden the gaze: a book dedicated to Galapogos, the heart of biodiversity and which is the first part of a project dedicated to the oceans that winds through the key locations to understand how the ocean is transforming, from the Galapagos to Patagonia to Papua New Guiea to Australia.
Browse the photos of Anctartica, in the gallery above
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