During winter, time seems to stop as nature goes into hibernation… However, locked in ice, life can be preserved and time can literally be frozen. In a new series entitled Locked in the Ether, Osaka-based photographer, Kenji Shibata, chose to freeze flowers in large blocks of ice and to photography the flowers as the ice thaws, creating stunning blurred colors reminiscent of the French impressionist artist Claude Monet.

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For more of Kenji Shibata’s work, visit his website

By Helene Hidalgo