Campbell approached Antarctica as something vast, savage and primordial, using anachronistic photographic technologies including daguerreotype, that was outmoded by the mid-nineteenth century and which had never been practiced on that continent before.
Samaras’ photographs depict the liminal space between life supporting architecture and the extreme environment, framing the paradoxical relationships inherent in trying to colonise an environment resistant to human habitation. Noble explores representation of the landscape at the point where perception and cognition founders.