Melt – Portrait of an Iceberg by Simon Harsent

Feb 4, 2012 by César Couto

A dramatic and visually stunning photo series by photographer Simon Harsent from his book, Melt: Portrait of an Iceberg, published in 2009. More photos of the series are available here and you can also buy prints here.

I set foot on the most crucial of my roads of no return when I was eleven years old: I had decided to paint a picture of the Titanic colliding with the iceberg. I don’t really know why I decided to paint a picture, or why this subject came to me, but three years later, I was still painting. I had become deeply interested in art and art history. I spent hours painting and looking at reproductions of paintings by major artists, many of whom are still my main source of inspiration. Then came another road, another option. Photography was offered as an option at school. I signed up for the class thinking of it as nothing more than a way of documenting things I might want to paint. When I developed my first photo, when I saw the image coming clear, everything changed. I felt something I’d never felt before: intense, absorbing, wholly personal. The word ‘vision’ took on a whole new meaning. I knew for sure that photography would be the great passion of my life.

Tags: iceberg, Melt, Photography, portrait, Simon Harsent

Submitted by César Couto

Founder of Paranoias, I was born in São Miguel, the biggest island from Azores. I'm a freelancer in the areas of web development and web design and I'm passionate about design, technology and photography. You can follow me at Facebook or Google+ but I normally post in Portuguese.