The exhibition is dedicated to photographs of Herbert Ponting, who became the first photographer to go on the polar expedition.
Photo by G. Ponting from the Terra Nova expedition, 1911-1913.
The beginning of the twentieth century was a new stage in the development of the Earth — people visited both poles of our planet. In 1908, Robert Piri and Frederick Cook reached the North Pole, and in 1911, a polar race was held to reach the South Pole, in which Robert Scott’s team, along with Herbert Ponting, travelled and captured the daily lives of her explorers.
The catalogue is divided into four text pieces, each of which describes a certain aspect of Ponting’s work in the expedition to maximize the reader’s exposure to the context of his work, as well as a separate part with a catalogue.
The work catalogue part is based on the exhibition space of the Arctic and Antarctic Museum, where the exhibits literally fill all available space, and the visitor does not have the opportunity to view the exhibition in isolation from other exhibits. So they also appear in the book, along with small explanatory texts that serve as a small analog of the guide’s story at the exhibition.
In addition to the photographs, the author ' s own quotations have sometimes been added to add material of a personal nature.
In addition to the catalogue, a set of 13 cards was produced, each of which represents one photographer’s work.