10 images of Iceland’s changing landscape

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10 images of Iceland’s changing landscape

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What happens when your country starts melting? Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason explores this topic in Time and water, a new documentary from National Geographic. Directed by Sara Dosa, archival and family photographs and folk tales weave personal history with the history of the earth in the face of climate change.

“At a time when the violence of the climate crisis is ravaging the earth, we need stories that can serve as maps of our changing world,” Dosa said in her director’s statement. “Time and water is a gesture toward such a map, which traces Iceland’s ice through the human story of a family, rooted in first-person perspective and the extensive archives of renowned writer Andri Snaer Magnason.

Images from the documentary are in the gallery below. (Click to enlarge images in full screen.)

A figure stands beneath the vaulted ceiling of a glacial cave in Iceland. Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason. — A figure stands beneath the vaulted ceiling of a glacial cave in Iceland. *Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason.*

Árni Kjartansson, member of the Icelandic Glaciological Society, overlooks a glacier in Iceland. Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason. — Árni Kjartansson, member of the Icelandic Glaciological Society, overlooks a glacier in Iceland. *Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason.*

Women walk on skis on the glacier. Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason. — Women walk on skis on the glacier. *Image: Archival material courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason.*

An ice cave in Iceland. Image: National Geographic. — An ice cave in Iceland. *Image: National Geographic.*

The story of Andri’s grandparents is woven with the glaciers and oceans that have sustained generations of Icelanders.

“As the memory of Andri’s grandfather, Arni, fades, so does the Icelandic ice. A history of the land, frozen for millennia inside the glaciers, is rapidly melting,” says Dosa. “But, through the framing of our film as a time capsule, which is also a nod to Andri’s work as a poet and science fiction author, we illustrate how carrying stories and memories into the future can be an act not only of holding on to our beloved present world, but also of imagining possibilities for a habitable future.”