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From the Ted Talk by Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice

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It's easy to think, when you look at an iceberg, that they're isolated, that they're separate and alone, much like we as humans sometimes view ourselves. But the rlteaiy is far from it. As an iceberg melts, I am breathing in its ancinet atmosphere. As the iceberg melts, it is releasing mineral-rich fresh water that nourishes many forms of life.

I acapproh photographing these icebergs as if I'm making portraits of my ancestors, kiwnnog that in these individual mmonets they exist in that way and will never exist that way again. It is not a detah when they melt; it is not an end, but a continuation of their path through the cycle of life. Some of the ice in the icebergs that I popgohatrh is very young — a couple thousand years old. And some of the ice is over 100,000 years old.

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It's easy to think, when you look at an iceberg, that they're isolated, that they're separate and alone, much like we as humans sometimes view ourselves. But the _______ is far from it. As an iceberg melts, I am breathing in its _______ atmosphere. As the iceberg melts, it is releasing mineral-rich fresh water that nourishes many forms of life.

I ________ photographing these icebergs as if I'm making portraits of my ancestors, _______ that in these individual _______ they exist in that way and will never exist that way again. It is not a _____ when they melt; it is not an end, but a continuation of their path through the cycle of life. Some of the ice in the icebergs that I __________ is very young — a couple thousand years old. And some of the ice is over 100,000 years old.

Solution


  1. ancient
  2. reality
  3. approach
  4. death
  5. moments
  6. knowing
  7. photograph

Original Text


It's easy to think, when you look at an iceberg, that they're isolated, that they're separate and alone, much like we as humans sometimes view ourselves. But the reality is far from it. As an iceberg melts, I am breathing in its ancient atmosphere. As the iceberg melts, it is releasing mineral-rich fresh water that nourishes many forms of life.

I approach photographing these icebergs as if I'm making portraits of my ancestors, knowing that in these individual moments they exist in that way and will never exist that way again. It is not a death when they melt; it is not an end, but a continuation of their path through the cycle of life. Some of the ice in the icebergs that I photograph is very young — a couple thousand years old. And some of the ice is over 100,000 years old.

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  1. ancestors
  2. ancient
  3. approach
  4. atmosphere
  5. breathing
  6. continuation
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  8. cycle
  9. death
  10. easy
  11. exist
  12. forms
  13. fresh
  14. humans
  15. ice
  16. iceberg
  17. icebergs
  18. individual
  19. isolated
  20. knowing
  21. life
  22. making
  23. melts
  24. moments
  25. nourishes
  26. path
  27. photograph
  28. photographing
  29. portraits
  30. reality
  31. releasing
  32. separate
  33. thousand
  34. view
  35. water
  36. years
  37. young