Dipankar Mukherjee Photography

With apologies to Robert Frost (Fire and Ice, 1920) I did not see either a primal desire to end in fire or an ice-cold hatred leading to destruction. Iceland is stunning and gave me more reason to be alive.

Streets have appeared in literature describing emotions felt, art displayed, struggles experienced, performances captured, political movements observed, and the list is never ending.

Monuments are built so people can see them and think about the power that was, remember the culture that was and reminisce about an event in history before moving on

We take pride in building, organizing, and decorating the place we call home. Some dwellings last and others are abandoned for reasons unknown.

The gallery shares documentary photographs of humans taken in different settings to give us a further understanding of our race. What we do with this realization is another matter.

It has been some time since I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and I have been thinking about sharing my thoughts about the climb. Doubts, excitement, concerns, some hard work, all of these went into the summit day – September 10, 2014.