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In 2009, a hunter shot a polar bear and carried it by dogsled about 750 meters to the town of Ittoqqortoormiit on the eastern coast of Greenland. Typically, the town’s hunters encounter polar bears on distant sea ice a couple of hours or even days from town. They skin their catches and leave behind the heavy bones. But as climate change melts more sea ice—the bear’s preferred hunting grounds—polar bear encounters closer to human settlements are becoming more common. When this hunter arrived with an entire bear in tow, the Danish photographer Carsten Egevang was there to capture the awe-struck reactions. In one photograph, the hand of a boy, about 12 years old, rests on the giant palm of the polar bear’s paw (Fig. 1). Roughly a dozen townspeople sized their palms up against the bear’s, Egevang recalls. “It acted very much like a magnet to them,” he says. The image suggests the people’s deep connection to the polar bear. It also highlights their practice of hunting a species threatened by climate change, a juxtaposition that Egevang says is what his photography is all about. When a hunter brought his polar bear kill back to a small Greenland town, photographer Carsten Egevang watched as townspeople sized up their palms against the bear’s. He captured one such encounter in “Paw & Hand.” Image courtesy of Carsten Egevang. Egevang is one of a growing number of photographers drawn to the Arctic, a region on the front lines of climate change. The area has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average. Scientists believe this trend, known as Arctic amplification, is caused in part by the loss of sea ice. As this reflective surface melts, it leaves behind darker water that absorbs more heat (1). Photographers are documenting the effects of …

Arctic photographers bring climate change into focus