Over the past seven years, Tina Freeman has photographed the wetlands of Louisiana and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from these dissimilar regions in a series of diptychs that function as stories about climate change, ecological balance, and the symbiotic relationship between disparate environments over time. Each pairing is chosen for the ways in which they relate, aesthetically and practically, demonstrating how rising sea level along the coast of Louisiana is both visually and physically connected to melting glaciers at the poles, despite the separation of vast distances. The large, color photographs in Lamentations make plain the crucial, threatening, and global dialogue between water in two physical states.
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20140225_Jökulsárólon_069 Glacial lagoon in southern Iceland | 20140418_Avoca_Island_377 A healthy freshwater marsh near Morgan City
2014 | 2014
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
20130223_BrownBluff_WeddellSea_031 A tabular iceberg in the Weddell Sea, about two kilometers long | 20140101_Avoca_Island_216 Near Morgan City, southwest of New Orleans, a lake that formed on a former island due to a man-made breech in the levee
2013 | 2014
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
20140222_Dritvik_016 Ice along a stream, western Iceland | 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_270 Healthy marsh along the lower Mississippi River, just west of South Pass
2014 | 2013
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
20150624_Ilulissat_Greenland_701 The Ilulissat Cemetery, Greenland | 20100625_GrandIsle_015 Cemetery at Leeville, Louisiana
2015 | 2010
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
20180402_Svalbard_103 Sea ice breaking up in late winter | 20170404_Wetland_Aerials_002 Louisiana wetlands southeast of New Orleans on the east side of the river, south of the Caernarvon diversion
2018 | 2017
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
20180401_Svalbard_804 Loose pancake ice forming | 20140417_Avoca_Island_179 Wild iris blooming
2018 | 2014
Tina Freeman
Archival inkjet print
Courtesy of the artist, © Tina Freeman
In Lamentations, Tina Freeman pairs photographs of Louisiana wetlands and Arctic landscapes
Photographer Tina Freeman’s pairing of images of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic creates a visual dialogue about the connectivity of two disparate but interdependent ecosystems. Read More
Lily Brooks offers an Artist’s Perspective on Tina Freeman: Lamentations
Photographer Lilly Brooks speaks about her work in relation to the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, on view at NOMA through March 22, 2019. Lilly Brooks Lily Brooks is an instructor… Read More