Simon Harsent, an English-born, New York-based photographer who lived in Australia for 11 years, has a show at the Australian Centre for Photography entitled Melt. Its about icebergs---it begins with images of massive icebergs as they enter Greenland's Disco Bay from the Ilulissat Icefjord and ends off the East coast of Newfoundland.

This journey is known as Iceberg Alley, an area off the West coast of Greenland where icebergs break away from the ice-wall and travel from Baffin Bay to the East Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and then enter the shipping lanes. During this time the icebergs have travelled hundreds of miles, and have been so battered and broken down that they are little more than ghosts of what they once were.

The commissioned advertising work finances the personal work which is constructed rather than capturing as it is based on an idea with the style based on the emotional effect of the work.Harsent says about his work:

getting the camera off the tripod really meant so much to me. It opened so many different doors. As did moving into digital, I used to shoot primarily in black and white. With the invention of computers and everything, I came out of the dark room. I kind of do in Photoshop what I used to do in the dark room for black and white. I see it as a way of playing around....These days, one of the greatest things that has happened to me is digital, it’s just completely re-inventing my excitement. I can walk around now and I don’t have to carry shit loads of gear. I’ve got my Canon 1DS - Mark II- I have that, a couple of zoom lenses, and a tripod, and I can just walk around and shoot things how I see it. But landscapes, I’m very into isolation. That’s why I do a lot of singular portraits. If you notice in the landscapes, there is a lot of isolation, there is a lot of barrenness.