RGS: Enduring Eye: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley

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This exhibition describes itself as 'one of the greatest ever photographic records of human survival' and this is not an oversell. 

From the expedition's planning, where one is given the impression of a rather humble but comfortable Edwardian office, one is led by crystal-clear, black and photography through an experience which is bordering on immersion. In close up detail one can look at the food on the men's plates as they share meals and marvel at the strangely incongruous decorative tiling of the ship's floor as the crew clean it. What follows is a true story of endurance, succinctly and concisely described by Meredith Hooper, the exhibition's curator, the photographs portray both a stark beauty and the horror of desolation and peril. At one stage lost in an image, I became aware of the soundscape around me, the 'white noise' of Antarctica, shifting plates and cracking ice, it literally sends a chill right through you. 

Runs until the end of February. More information here. 

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