Alaska is rich in its environmental diversity, but no landscape is more alluring than that made of ice and stone. Home to one of the largest ice caps outside of the polar regions, these frozen landscapes cut deep across the state’s interior and seep into waters along its coast.

From a photographic perspective, many of these indomitable landscapes were made famous through the viewfinder of Bradford Washburn’s Fairchild K-6 large format aerial camera. Throughout his prolific years Washburn climbed and photographed across vast swaths of Alaska and the Yukon with a vision deeply rooted in adventure and storytelling. He set a precedent for mountain photography that continues to speak volumes across the genre and will well into the future.

But just as time ticks onward, the landscapes and those who move through them change. In Glacier: Bradford Washburn’s Mountain Photography Meets Contemporary Counterpart, Alex Joseph Hansen takes us on a visual journey from summit to the calving icebergs of Alaska’s greatest glaciers. Hansen cites Washburn as early inspiration for his pursuits in the mountains, but his own creative aesthetic drives the storyline behind the exhibition. With underlying tones of science, climate, and art, Hansen shares a sophisticated take on glacier systems as a whole and the narrative behind our planet’s mass exodus of ice.