“When I visited my grandparents after I travelled back home to the Austrian Alps, we were looking at their family photo albums together; time well spent. There it was: a photograph of my father and my grandfather standing in front of the glacier, white blankets in the background and then my father’s voice in my ear ‘I can not believe how much these glaciers have changed already, I am sure they will soon disappear ‘ .
As part of the upcoming International Day of Glaciers in March, I am launching my debut self-published photography book 'When White Blankets' and short film about vanishing glaciers; a dedication to the mountains, my family, and my home. The project is a collaboration between my grandfather, my father, and myself: a story told across three generations, reflecting on memory, loss, and our changing relationship with our natural world.
Drawing on my grandfather’s Super 8mm films and photographs of Alpine glaciers from the early 1970s and my father’s writing alongside my own analogue images of the same locations today, the work bridges past and present while quietly documenting the realities of climate change. The project becomes a meditation on melting glaciers, mountain landscapes, and nature as a space for memory and mental respite.” - Nina Allmoslechner.
The book is accompanied by texts from Glaciologist Andrea Fischer as well as Writer, Senior Lecturer in Photography Dr. Jennifer Good.
Nina Maria Allmoslechner (b.1998) is a London and Tyrol-based artist mainly working with analogue photography, super 8mm, 16mm film and writing, who graduated in Documentary Photography BA from the University of Arts London. Her work involves alternative darkroom printing as well as the family archive. Nina’s practice is predominantly concerned with topics around mental health, womanhood, lens-based memory representation and the natural earth.
She was awarded the BFI Doc Society Film Fund (2024), The Goethe Institute Project Grant (2023) and the DYCP through Arts Council England (2022). Her glacier photographs have been exhibited at the ‘Look Into My Ice’, an international exhibition project within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 and OPEN ECO ‘How can photography make a difference to the climate crisis’ group exhibition at Brighton Photo Fringe Festival (2024).