Janez Kramar – Farewell to the Glacier, Photo Exhibition

“Farewell to the Glacier”

The Pasterze Glacier beneath Grossglockner, like glaciers around the world, is sharing the same fate – it is disappearing rapidly. I first visited it in 2012. Large blocks of ice were breaking off the glacier’s front, mostly darkened by sand, but also strikingly turquoise, floating on the water of two lakes that further reshaped and eventually melted them. An endless water cycle that continues as the Möll River.

When I returned in 2018, the glacier was significantly smaller and shorter. The lakes below it had turned into a large lagoon, revealing a mosaic of sand deposits in various colours and forms. That was when the idea for this exhibition was born. Sadly, my most recent visit showed that the situation is even worse, and that the glacier continues to shrink and fade away at a very rapid pace… A message to climate change deniers!

Author

Dedicated to Stanka, my dear life companion…!

About the Author

Janez Kramar, a member of the Radovljica Photographic Society, holds the titles Master of Photography of the FZS and EFIAP (Excellence FIAP).

He has been photographing since early youth, and more seriously for the past thirty years, after joining the Jesenice Photo Club, where he has been continuously active in the club’s bodies as well as within the FZS. He is drawn to beauty in all its forms, especially landscapes, nature, details, portraits, street photography, and more recently, people. Through 63 solo exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad – in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Spain and elsewhere (besides Madrid, in ten major Spanish cities and in Andorra) – he has presented photographic series such as African Horizons, Stone and Sand, Landscapes and Coasts, Prešihanje, My Slovenia, Verticals, Traces, Acquaintances and Strangers, and others.

He has participated in 654 group exhibitions, including 471 international ones, in 110 countries worldwide. For his work, he has received 334 awards and recognitions. He is the recipient of the Golden Badge of the Alpine Association of Slovenia, the Municipality of Kranjska Gora Award, and the Janez Puhar Award.

The exhibition is on view until 9 February 2026.