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These otherworldly photos convey climate change's effects on Arctic regions

Photographer Ella Morton documented the Arctic and Subarctic around the world, implementing analog techniques to warp the photos and illustrate climate change's effects in these areas.
<em>Tilting Storm</em> (2018), Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada

Editor's note: As the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Summit convenes, NPR's Picture Show is taking a look at work by artists and visual journalists that highlight climate change.

What are we losing, in terms of our spiritual connection to the land, as the climate rapidly changes?

This is the question Ella Morton seeks to answer with her, a series of experimental analog photographs and short films that examine climate change in the Arctic and Subarctic landscapes of Canada and Nordic Europe.

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