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Marcus Voss makes photographs of landscapes at the edge of what the human eye can hold. His work is preoccupied with scale, duration, and the strangeness of natural systems — glaciers that groan, lava fields that breathe, the particular silence of high altitude.

Born in Stuttgart, Marcus studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee before relocating to Reykjavik, where he spent three winters photographing Iceland’s interior highlands. The resulting body of work, Before the Ice, has been widely exhibited in Europe and North America.

He works with large-format cameras — typically an Ebony RSW45 — and uses extended exposure times, sometimes several minutes, to register movement invisible to the naked eye. His prints are produced in limited editions on fibre-based paper and are held in private collections across Europe.

Current projects include an ongoing study of Iceland’s retreating glaciers, documented annually since 2018, and a new series made on the Atacama plateau in Chile.