{"id":41786,"date":"2025-09-01T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muse.international\/?p=41786"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:08:39","slug":"carcass-of-the-ice-beast-by-liam-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muse.international\/index\/carcass-of-the-ice-beast-by-liam-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Carcass of the Ice Beast By Liam Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once a towering giant of the Alps, the Rhone Glacier is now reduced to fragments of ice draped in torn thermal blankets &#8211; the last remnants of a desperate and ultimately futile defence. Liam Man\u2019s Carcass of the Ice Beast captures a haunting landscape where human effort meets irreversible loss. In 2009, reflective blankets were install over the glacier to slow its retreat. Today, what remains of these coverings hangs like shredded skin on the bones of a dying creature. Stretched over ice blocks that no longer anchor the mountain with their former mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ice That Bled P1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just five years ago, the land beneath was solid. Now, meltwater pools where ice once stood, forming a lake filled by what could be called the glacier\u2019s blood. The visual language of the series draws heavily on this transformation, the collapse of structure into fluidity, of stability into memory. The glacier\u2019s demise is mark by the silent erosion of decades, accelerate by rising temperatures that outpace local interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2025 marks the United Nations International Year of Glaciers&#8217; Preservation, this work underscores the limits of isolated efforts. The retreat of the Rhone Glacier mirrors countless others across the Alps. Many of which are losing meters of thickness each year. Despite heroic attempts by individuals, including those now racing to remove the degraded blankets before they contaminate river systems. The outcome remains clear: localised protection cannot match the scale of climate disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">P2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The glacier, once Europe\u2019s showcase of man-made ice architecture. Now exists as a cautionary spectacle, an exposed carcass, fragile and fading. Man\u2019s photographs document this stark transition with restraint and clarity, refusing drama in favour of honest witness. Carcass of the Ice Beast is not just an elegy for a vanishing glacier. It is a call for global will, share responsibility, and a recognition that time, once lost, cannot be make up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liam&#8217;s photography series of the Rhone Glacier secured him a <strong>Category Winner of the Year<\/strong> title at the <strong>2025 London Photography Awards<\/strong> in the <strong>Editorial Photography \u2013 Environmental<\/strong> category. The recognition affirms the power of quiet documentation in confronting urgent ecological truths. And the role of visual storytelling in preserving what words alone cannot hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/londonphotographyawards.com\/\" class=\"external\">https:\/\/londonphotographyawards.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a towering giant of the Alps, the Rhone Glacier is now reduced to fragments of ice draped in torn thermal blankets &#8211; the last remnants<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":41788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,463,397],"tags":[507,17],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carcass of the Ice Beast By Liam Man<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once a towering giant of the Alps, the Rhone Glacier is now reduced to fragments of ice draped in torn thermal blankets - 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