The latest monograph from photographer Diane Tuft provides a little-seen portrait of beauty and loss.

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Artist and photographer Diane Tuft, whose work is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, the International Center of Photography in New York City, and the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, has focused her life’s work on traveling to remote areas to record environmental changes on the Earth’s landscape. Her first monograph, UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum, was a collection of 10 years’ worth of photographs from the American West, Nepal, North Africa, and Iceland. She spent six weeks on the continent of Antarctica for her second book, Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land.

Her latest, The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape (Assouline), brings her back to the Arctic Circle, where her unconventional landscape photography turns frozen tundra and ice from the North Pole, Norway, and Greenland into a staggering record of beauty and loss.

The Greenland Ice Sheet Taken July 16, 2016, this overhead shot documents the Greenland Ice Sheet, the 660,000-square-mile collection of ice that covers roughly 80 percent of the surface of the island. Photographer: Diane Tuft Wedel Jarlsberg Land A glacial split in progress in Wedel Jarlsberg Land, at the southern end of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. More than 65 percent of the region is estimated to be ice cap. Photographer: Diane Tuft Franz Joseph Land The Collinson fjord, where a failed expedition to reach the North Pole set up camp more than 100 years ago, is located in the high Russian Arctic archipelago of Franz Joseph Land, an uninhabited collection of islands in the Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea. Photographer: Diane Tuft The Arctic Ocean A photograph of the Arctic Ocean taken at 87 degrees north latitude. Photographer: Diane Tuft The Greenland Sea At 79 degrees north, where the Arctic Ocean meets the Greenland Sea. Photographer: Diane Tuft Disko Bay The Broken Arches in Disko Bay, a wide southeastern inlet of Baffin Bay on the western coast of Greenland. Photographer: Diane Tuft Wordiekammen Ice patterns on Wordiekammen, a mountain in Svalbard, Norway. Photographer: Diane Tuft Sullorsuaq Strait Close-up of ice at Sullorsuaq Strait, on the western coast of Greenland. Photographer: Diane Tuft Greenland Remnants of ice at 69 degrees north in Greenland. Photographer: Diane Tuft Wahlenbergbreen Wahlenbergbreen, a glacier in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway. Photographer: Diane Tuft The North Pole This photograph was taken at the North Pole at 12:03 a.m., at 0 degrees Celsius. Photographer: Diane Tuft The Arctic Melt The Arctic Melt book cover, published by Assouline. Source: Assouline