International photography festival Les Mesnographies - the memory of glaciers

As part of the Mesnographies photography festival, the Jean Monnet House will exhibit in its park photographs by Sandrine Elberg on the memory of Iceland's glaciers.

The Jökull (glacier in Icelandic) photographic collection is a tribute to the sublime, to Iceland's glaciers with their faults, scars, whirlpools, and crevasses. The various views of the glaciers are set beneath the island's starry skies and moon, inviting contemplation and daydreaming.

This work thus contributes poetically to the memory of glaciers and their preservation. On August 18, 2019, a commemorative plaque was unveiled in Iceland in honor of Okjökull, the first glacier to disappear on the subarctic island and officially delisted in 2014. The monument "A Letter to the Future" was erected on the site of the former glacier, marking the grim recognition of the effects of climate change. The gold-lettered plaque reads 415 ppm CO2, a reference to the record high carbon dioxide concentration recorded in the atmosphere in May 2019. Researchers estimate that Iceland loses around eleven billion tons of ice each year, and that 400 glaciers on the island could disappear within the next two hundred years if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate.