Books & Prints by Ian van Coller

Passages Bookshop is excited to announce our summer exhibition

•••• BOOKS & PRINTS BY IAN VAN COLLER

•••• July 8 – August 20, 2022

Covid precautions: Proof of vaccination and masks required

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For the past decade, Ian van Coller has traveled the globe in pursuit of images that communicate the realities of climate change and deep time.

He has photographed disappearing glaciers, endangered and threatened birds, the oldest trees on earth, and the oldest ice yet discovered, traveling to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, the cloud forest of Colombia, Svalbard in the high Norwegian Arctic, and Glacier, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountain National Parks in the Western United States.

He has accompanied climate scientists on expeditions to remote glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and in the Andes in Peru, and served as a National Science Artists & Writers Program Fellow in Antarctica — and out of all of these experiences he has fashioned artistic responses that simultaneously celebrate and memorialize the extraordinary but ultimately vulnerable beauty of the earth.

Ian’s very large scale photographic artist’s books invite the viewer into a transformed relationship to the book, in which the image ceases to be an object and becomes instead an environment. Several of Ian’s books will be on display throughout the course of the exhibition, as well as both color and black-and-white prints from the same bodies of work.

Most recently, Ian has been collaborating with climate scientists who have annotated images, writing directly on the prints — those collaborations are on view, through July 2 only, at Blue Sky Gallery in downtown Portland. Don’t miss it!

www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2022/ian-van-coller

We look forward to sharing with you the unique and important work of Ian van Coller.

Please join us in welcoming the artist at an opening reception on Friday, July 8, from 6:00-9:00 pm.

Ian van Coller was born and raised in South Africa. He moved to the United States in 1992 to study photography and printmaking, receiving his BFA from Arizona State University and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, and is included in more than fifty public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. A 2018 Guggenheim fellow as well as a fellow of the Explorers Club, Van Coller has since 2006 been a Professor of Photography at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he lives with his wife, two children, and two dogs.