Lynn Davis, Iceberg #23, Disko Bay, Greenland, gold-toned gelatin silver print, 40" x 40", 2000

Before photographer Lynn Davis made her first trip to Greenland, she had been shooting nudes. But when she arrived at Disko Bay, she realized, "The icebergs looked a lot like the nudes. And the icebergs looked a lot like grand architecture. They awoke the path that I wanted to go on. " Davis had no political motive, i.e., attempting to call attention to global warming, in her attraction to the icebergs. "It didn't start politically, but it became that every time I went there, it was warmer. And the icebergs began changing shape." Davis talks about working with the transient nature of civilization. "Lebanon was there, and now it's gone. And with ice, you shoot and, the next day, what you've been working with is entirely gone." Her current show, "Parallel Passages," includes work from her most recent trips to Greenland and evokes the physical majesty captured in the work of 19th-century Hudson River School painter Frederic Church.

"Parallel Passages," curated by Donald McKinney, is at the Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson through October 30. (518) 828 5090; www.modogallery.com.