Portraits of Place: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

阿蒙森-斯科特南极站的地点肖像是对南极站建筑，基础设施和景观的全面摄影研究。 这项详细的摄影研究的目的是促进对这个偏远地区和那里进行的科学研究的了解。该项目的重点是在极点的科学硬件，这是提供我们的星球和宇宙的新的理解。 通过提供空间站的全貌，然后捕捉空间站的细节，该项目将为公众提供一个了解在南极生活和工作的物理方面的窗口：不仅是天气，极端寒冷和生活在那里所需的基础设施，而且是为各种重大科学项目部署的主要仪器以及操作和维护它们的研究人员。 看到使科学成为可能的物理对象使科学更加有形，并说明了完成极地独特研究所需的科学和工程的深度。 南极的摄影主题将包括望远镜和其他观测仪器，容纳它们的建筑物以及周围的景观。这将包括直观地描述天文学、物理学、宇宙学和气候研究中使用的专门仪器，并捕捉它们作为物体的独特物理性质。与项目科学家和研究人员合作，计划访问黑暗区，清洁空气区和安静区的各个地点。 将努力从视觉上描述和强调空间站环境的偏远恶劣性质以及在那里工作和生存所需的基础设施和冗余系统。照片将通过多种媒体供公众观看，包括在南极洲期间接管史密森尼杂志的Instagram饲料一周，博客文章popantarctica.wordpress.com，照片发布到两个网站shaunoboylephoto.com和oboylephoto.com，以及2020年秋季在Peary-MacMillan北极博物馆举办的印刷品展览，包括向学生介绍。 此外，还计划出版一本关于摄影师访问美国南极计划（USAP）所有三个站的作品的书。 展览和介绍将包括照片与图像或数据配对，从科学仪器拍摄沿着的话，科学家。艺术与科学之间的这种融合有可能加强艺术品，并在新的背景下呈现科学，强调科学的对象和工具，科学成果，和科学发生的独特的地方。阿蒙森的地方肖像-斯科特南极站是一个南极艺术家和作家的项目，由NSF的极地项目办公室支持。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定基金会的使命是履行其使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评价，被认为值得支持。

Portraits of Place at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a comprehensive photographic study of the station buildings, infrastructure and landscapes of the South Pole. The goal of this detailed photographic study is to advance knowledge about this remote location and the scientific research taking place there. The project's emphasis is on the scientific hardware at the Pole, which is providing new understanding of our planet and universe. By giving an overall picture of the station, and then capturing details of the station, this project will provide a window for the public to understand the physical aspects of being and working at the South Pole: not only the weather, the extreme cold, and the infrastructure required to live there, but the major instruments deployed for the various major science projects and the researchers who operate and maintain them. Seeing the physical objects that make the science possible makes the science more tangible and illustrates the depth of the science and engineering required to accomplish the research that is unique to the Pole. Photographic subjects at the South Pole will include the telescopes and other observational instruments, the buildings that house them, and the landscapes that surround them. This will include visually describing the specialized instruments used in astronomy, physics, cosmology and climate studies, and capturing their unique physical qualities as objects. Working with project scientists and researchers, scheduled visits will be made to photograph individual sites in the Dark Sector, Clean Air Sector, and Quiet Sector. An effort will be made to visually describe and emphasize the remote harsh nature of the environment of the station and the infrastructure and redundant systems required to work and survive there. Photographs will be available for public viewing through a number of media, including a takeover of the Smithsonian Magazine's Instagram feed for a week while in Antarctica, blog posts to popantarctica.wordpress.com, photographs posted to two websites, shaunoboylephoto.com and oboylephoto.com, and an exhibition of prints at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum in the fall of 2020 including presentations to students. In addition, a book is planned of the photographer's work from visits to all three U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) stations. Exhibitions and presentations will include the photographs paired with images or data from the science instruments photographed along with the words of the scientists. This convergence between art and science has the potential to strengthen the artwork and presents the science in a new context, underlining the synergy between the objects and tools of science, the scientific results, and the unique place where the science takes place.Portraits of Place at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is an Antarctic Artists and Writers project supported by NSF's Office of Polar Programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.