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Environmental & Conservation Photographer
About Jane Martin
In 2019, Jane Martin spent 78 consecutive days documenting the slow retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, not with drones or satellite data, but on foot and by kayak, hauling analog medium-format film that she developed in a repurposed ranger station darkroom. Her resulting series, 'Silent Calving', became the first photographic archive accepted into the U.S. Geological Survey’s permanent climate records, not as illustration but as primary observational evidence. She refuses digital capture for glacier work, citing the deliberate slowness of film as essential to witnessing change, not just recording it. Her prints are made using hand-coated iron-gall ink on cotton rag paper, a process that mirrors the chemical fragility of the ecosystems she documents. When her image of a single lynx crossing a thawing permafrost fissure appeared on the cover of BioScience, it sparked new federal protocols for wildlife corridor mapping in warming boreal zones. Her lens doesn’t seek grandeur; it lingers on the micro-fractures, lichen peeling from granite, sediment plumes in glacial runoff, the precise angle at which a spruce root grips eroding soil.
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- “What made you switch from color to monochrome for the 'Silent Calving' series?”
- “How do you develop film safely in sub-zero field conditions without electricity?”
- “Which species have you photographed that later became federally listed—and did your images influence the decision?”
- “Why do you embed soil samples directly into your exhibition prints?”