Andrew McIver
End of the Empire
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Source & Method
Source Text: Franz Joseph Land: The Meaning of North by David Quammen (National Geographic, August 2014).
Photos: Corey Richards. Constructed using cut-ups and collage, pasting words and phrases on top of images from the source text.
Andrew McIver is the author What the River Was, a collection of original and found poetry forthcoming December 12, 2020. You can find his work online at andrew-mciver.com or @andrewmciver_ on Instagram.