Adam Sébire

Australian-born artist-filmmaker Adam Sébire was in the Norwegian Arctic researching a PhD on the visual representation of climate change when Covid-19 border closures marooned him there for 18 months. He's since become one of the Arctic’s 4 million human inhabitants, with a front-row view on this climate change hotspot. Adam had just graduated as a documentary photographer/filmmaker in 2004 when his experience of rising seas on the atoll nation of Tuvalu, only 2m above the Pacific Ocean, turned his focus to climate change. Fifteen years later he found himself caught in the middle of the 187cm Venice flood disaster, again with camera in hand. Today he (almost) scrapes together a living cleaning Arctic icebergs – in between making lens-based works in NW Greenland.