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Aug 28, 2003

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." --Rumi

Raging blizzards and a wind-chill factor of minus 100 degrees didn’t deter scientist Subhankar Banerjee from quitting his high-paying job, becoming a photographer and exploring the stark wilderness of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! With an introduction by former President Jimmy Carter, he published his images in 'Seasons of Life and Land', which quickly became the center of a political firestorm when Senator Barbara Boxer held it up on the Senate floor to show why the Alaskan refuge should not be opened to drilling. His Smithsonian exhibition was subsequently consigned to a basement corridor in the Natural History Musuem.