SO2

a series of 12 photographs
Hahnemühle fine art print
60x40cm
2020

One day in the future in Stöðvarfjörður, East Iceland.

"Our perception of the color of the sky has changed. The atmosphere is full of sulfur, the air is full of dust, visibility is low, and the sky is purple." Diane Drubay

We are at a time when anthropogenic global warming has impacted our planet so much that people forgot about the first glacier that died in 2014: Okjökull.

With more glaciers disappearing regularly, pressure on volcanoes is released, making them ready to erupt at any time, leading to perfect conditions for lower atmospheric pressure to produce strong winds and cyclones, which continually stir up dust in our atmosphere.

SO2 is a series of speculative photographs presenting landscape panoramas of Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland. In a future when the shrinking glacier on Earth could generate high volcanic activity, sulfur dioxide in the upper troposphere and stratosphere will turn the sky deep purple.

If you want to learn more about the science behind this series of photographs and understand why the shrinking glacier on Earth could generate high volcanic activity and see the augmentation of sulfur dioxide in the upper troposphere and stratosphere turn the sky deep purple, here is the reference article.