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Martin has spent more than days working in the Arctic and Antarctic on more than 20 polar expeditions and assignments. I wonder whether Martin considers himself to be a photographer or an explorer and adventurer? For all the science that tells us that our planet is warming up, that our ice caps are melting, very few people have seen this with their own eyes.

On and off for the last 17 years, Martin has spent extended time on the Arctic Ocean and has seen change happen much faster than scientists have anticipated. Because there is so much open water up there now, the ice moves very fast. In , I got my greatest shock when I spent 22 days skiing on sea ice near the North Pole that was as flat as a frozen lake.

None of the ice I had been on would survive the summer. That was a huge wake up call. The temperatures in the Arctic are about 60 years ahead of what science had anticipated.

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The photographs I have now are fast becoming the only profound documentation of an environment that will be extinct, and sadly, very sadly in our lifetme. Photographers are working hard all over the world to document endangered animals and habitat loss. The rate of loss is terrifying.