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PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO BY CHRIS BURKARD
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By David Beard and Jen Tse
Already the gawkers have moved onto the fringe of an erupting volcano (above) in southwestern Iceland. What is it about seeing the incandescent lava, the newest part of Earth, flowing nearby? Or the nagging fear that you might be trapped in a violent, unpredictable spasm of fire and stone?
“I think that people are attracted to the sheer power and awe of volcanoes and images of eruptions,” says Sara Dosa, who was filming at the site during an eruption a year ago and directed Fire of Love, the just-released documentary about husband-and-wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. “In a volcano, one can see the forces of creation and destruction all at once.”
The images below show the wonder of those in Iceland and at previous eruptions. One photograph below is of the Kraffts, who experienced the rawness and danger of volcanoes worldwide—and who never made it out of one eruption.
Dosa, who had returned to Iceland last month, left a week before the latest outburst—and is feeling a bit of FOMO. “Maurice [Krafft] described observing magmatic eruptions as witnessing the birth of the world billions of years ago,” Dosa tells us.
See our full story from Iceland here.
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