Uncover Antarctica - BTS | National Geographic | OPPO

Antarctica is a land of extremes, and it's got an incredible grand scale. So it's very difficult to try and capture it with images. Being a National Geographic photographer creates an opportunity for me to document the world, and you don't know what you're going to uncover. You are going into the unknown. There's always a bit of nervous excitement.

To get to Antarctica, we have to get across one of the most treacherous crossings on the planet, which is the Drake Passage. Antarctica is other-worldly: big mountain ranges and endless seas of ice. And it's a challenging place to document because it feels like you can never really do it justice. I'm trying to showcase this land of extremes. How every single flake of snow counts towards building that incredible landscape.

It's strange to think that something so light can compact over thousands of years and trap so much history in the glacier. I like to be as prepared as I can be, but I want to leave myself open to inspiration from the environment. So the calving just happened, and it's created a wave, and we can see it push up all the ice onto the beach. There's these kind of beautiful coincidences that happen, and that's when those really special images tend to eventuate.

I find that the colours in Antarctica pull you out of yourself. Yet it is the most present that we get to be. You can see quite a lot of water pouring out of the glacier. We all know that Antarctica is deeply impacted by climate change. And I want to try and showcase that fragility through the macro and the micro. You can hear the ice releasing the air bubbles, and it sounds like popcorn.

So we are recording underwater because most of the iceberg is under the surface, so this is going to give us a bit of a glimpse. That was on Ultra Steady as well. It's an electric feeling to see these images that I have envisioned and to suddenly see them come to life. He's collecting all the little rocks, and he's creating a nest.

What I really love, especially with nature, is that it reveals itself gently and a little bit by bit. I think a big part of my work is uncovering those moments. When I capture an image that I feel like encapsulates that moment, it's a feeling of coming home.