In Photos: Panoramic Compositions of Stuart Klipper

Striated Berg, Neumayer Channel, Antarctica, 1987

‘Polar Regions and High Latitude Domains: Since I first sallied north in the 1960s I’ve made northern forays in each decade. The roster of places I’ve travelled to includes: Newfoundland and Labrador, Iceland and Greenland, northern Scandinavia and Lapland, Svalbard and several smaller Arctic islands, the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans and polar ice pack, and Alaska.’

All photographs: Stuart Klipper/courtesy of Joseph Bellows Gallery

Spryte Tracks, South Pole Plateau, Antarctica, 1992

‘In 1987, I joined a sailing expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula – which was my daunting initiation to this region of ice’

Clarkdale, Mississippi, 1992

‘The World in a Few States is the American regions work I have been making since 1979. It began with a commission to photograph the cultural and geographical identities of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana’

Fleeing Flock, Lamar County, Mississippi, 1992

‘The World in a Few States is an ongoing endeavour – its ever-expanding inventories now number 30,000-plus pictures, and it embraces all 50 US states’