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Sebastian Copeland’s powerful long-form films offer a breathtaking yet urgent window into Earth’s rapidly disappearing polar landscapes. Through treacherous expeditions and awe-inspiring cinematography, his documentaries chronicle both the fragility and resilience of these icy frontiers, revealing rare, hauntingly beautiful visuals of Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems on the brink of collapse. With each journey, Copeland immerses audiences in a world that may soon vanish, compelling action before it’s too late.
No man has ever successfully traversed down Antarctica's East Coast through the Pole of Inaccessibility to the West Coast of Antarctica- until now. Sebastian Copeland documents the harrowing, historical journey in his original film, Antarctica.
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Sebastian Copeland’s feature documentary Across The Ice chronicles his and Eric McNair-Landry’s record setting epedition across Greenland. A remarkable and inspiring story co-produced by Red Bull Media House.
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Sebastian Copeland's Into The Cold: A Journey of The Soul retraces an exhilarating adventure across what experts refer to as one of the most challenging geographical environments in the world - The Great North - documenting it's vanishing ice as a result of climate change.
Watch Into the ColdCORE Foundation stands at a unique intersection, on the frontlines of polar exploration, scientific data capture where none currently exists (as of 2026) and global storytelling.
In collaboration with award-winning photographer, polar explorer Sebastian Copeland and leading climate scientist Ted Scambose, integrated with NASA’s Landsat program, CORE can help generate previously unavailable climate data from the most remote, unmeasured regions on Earth.
Over 24 months, this initiative will not only capture and analyze frontier environmental data, but - critically - share it in real time with a global audience of millions through the CORE platform.
This is not retrospective storytelling. This is live exploration, live data, and live learning, unfolding as it happens.
Alongside Sebastian’s filming and Ted’s scientific leadership, CORE is documenting from the last true frontiers of our planet, regions that remain largely not researched and unmeasured as of today.
At the same time, CORE is transforming this data into CORE+ educational journeys, creating an ongoing global feed where science becomes accessible, immersive, and actionable.
A Living Classroom Powered by Real-World Discovery
This initiative is designed as a continuous, evolving ecosystem, not a single expedition. From Field Data to Scientific Analysis to Real-Time Global Feed to Education to Action.
While data is being collected in extreme environments, CORE audiences worldwide will simultaneously experience, learn from, and engage with it.
And beyond real-time, this becomes a permanent, evolving educational resource, accessible for years to come, continuously enriching learning journeys as new data is added and interpreted.
Through CORE+, Sebastian Copeland’s exhibit at the IPFO Museum, Haus der Fotografie in Olten, Switzerland, becomes an interactive learning journey. Inspired by his lifelong work documenting the polar regions, this experience blends photography, exploration, conservation, and environmental awareness.
Beginning with the exhibition, the journey extends onto the CORE platform through AI-powered modules, making Sebastian’s philosophy and conservation message accessible across different age groups, languages, and cultural contexts.
At the museum, visitors are invited to engage creatively by drawing something inspired by the exhibition, scanning it, and watching it come to life as a short animation through CORE+ technology, transforming observation into participation.
Through CORE+, Copeland’s work becomes more than an exhibit, his work becomes a living classroom, connecting creativity, ecology, and global stewardship, and redefining how audiences experience storytelling.
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British French American Sebastian Copeland is a world-renowned polar explorer, climate researcher, environmentalist, photographer and author. His personal commitment to fight for the protection of our environment and relentless pursuit of a sustainable future has led Sebastian to focus on visual arts as a tool for documenting social change by re-tooling his climbing and mountaineer adventure skills for polar exploration.
Copeland was twice named Photographer of the Year and has addressed the U.N., governments, universities, and Fortune 500 companies to warn of the systemic transformations taking place in the polar regions and their geopolitical consequences. Sebastian’s work has been featured in National Geographic, GQ, Marie Claire, Elle magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside, American Photo, The New York Times, People Magazine, USA Today, Paris Match as well as on NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN’s Larry King Live, and hundreds of other international media outlets and publications.
Sebastian Copeland’s activism efforts for social change have granted him a seat on the Board of Directors for the US Branch of Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International as well as Shine On Sierra Leone. His work has also been recognized three times at the International Photography Awards in 2006 and 2007, most notably the Professional Photographer of the Year award for his bestselling book Antarctica: The Global Warning. In 2019, Copeland was awarded by French President Emmanuel Macron the National Order of Merit.
Learn about Sebastian's exhibition https://www.scopelandfineart.com/
The SEDNA Foundation, launched by Sebastian Copeland in 2010, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and empowering individuals, media, government bodies, and advocacy groups on the urgent issue of global climate change and its devastating effects on our planet’s delicate polar regions. Inspired by Copeland’s expeditions to Greenland, Antarctica, and the North Pole, SEDNA embodies his passion and commitment to protecting these fragile environments—places where ice, wildlife, and entire ecosystems face critical threats due to rising temperatures and habitat loss.
The SEDNA Foundation uses powerful visual storytelling and public engagement to increase awareness and inspire action toward environmental preservation and sustainable practices. Copeland's commitment to these causes fuels SEDNA's mission to mobilize support for the protection of polar ecosystems, urging a deeper understanding of climate change’s global impact.
Support from generous donors helps the SEDNA Foundation in its efforts to educate and advocate, amplifying the call to address climate change's damaging effects on the polar regions. Learn more and find out how you can help by visiting The SEDNA Foundation’s website.
To connect with Sebastian Copeland and learn more about his adventures, advocacy, and artistic endeavors, visit his website. Continue exploring with one of Sebastian's books, available for purchase on Amazon.
Sebastian Copeland is a polar explorer, photographer, filmmaker, and climate advocate whose work focuses on documenting the Earth’s most remote regions and the visible impact of environmental change.
Sebastian Copeland has led and completed numerous expeditions across the Arctic and Antarctica, including journeys to the North Pole, South Pole, and a transcontinental crossing of Antarctica. His expeditions often span thousands of kilometers across some of the most extreme environments on Earth.
Over the course of his career, Sebastian Copeland has completed dozens of major polar expeditions, many of them record-setting or pioneering in scale and distance.
Yes. Sebastian Copeland documents many of his expeditions himself, capturing both photography and film in extreme conditions. His work is deeply personal, often filmed and photographed while he is physically immersed in the environments he is exploring.
His films include Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, along with other expedition-based visual works that capture the transformation of polar environments.
The CORE Polar Initiative is a multi-year exploration and research effort led by Sebastian Copeland in collaboration with CORE. It combines long-distance expeditions across Antarctica and Greenland with real-time data capture, documenting ice, water, and environmental conditions in some of the least measured regions on Earth. The initiative is designed not only to gather critical field data, but to translate that data into cinematic storytelling and global learning experiences through CORE.
The Antarctica film is a CORE Impact Story currently in development, documenting a record-setting traverse across the Antarctic continent, including routes toward the Pole of Inaccessibility. The film captures both the physical expedition and the scientific data collection process, offering a rare, real-time view into extreme environments. It will premiere globally on CORE and be accompanied by CORE+ educational layers, allowing audiences to engage directly with the data, insights, and discoveries generated during the journey.
Sebastian Copeland’s films and visual storytelling projects can be experienced on the CORE platform, where his work is presented alongside educational and immersive content.
The SEDNA Foundation, founded by Sebastian Copeland, is dedicated to raising awareness about climate change and its impact on polar regions through exploration, storytelling, and public engagement.
Climate advocacy is central to Copeland’s work. For over two decades, he has documented the effects of global warming in polar regions and shared these insights with global audiences, institutions, and policymakers.
Sebastian Copeland was awarded the National Order of Merit by the French government in recognition of his contributions to environmental awareness and exploration.
Sebastian Copeland’s photography is available through select galleries, exhibitions, and official channels connected to his work. Like many fine art photographers, his prints are typically sold as limited editions through curated platforms and gallery partners rather than mass-market outlets.
His large-scale prints are designed to immerse the viewer in the environment. By expanding the image to near life-size, the viewer can experience the vastness, silence, and intensity of polar landscapes in a way that mirrors the physical reality of being there.
His work focuses on climate, environmental preservation, exploration, human resilience, and the relationship between people and the planet.
His expeditions are not only about exploration, but about bearing witness. By traveling to remote and often inaccessible regions, he documents environmental change firsthand and translates it into visual stories that resonate globally.
His work sits at the intersection of adventure, art, and science. He transforms remote data and environmental change into emotional, visual narratives that connect audiences to the urgency of the planet’s transformation.
CORE features Sebastian Copeland as a resident whose work embodies exploration, education, and global awareness, aligning with CORE’s mission to share meaningful, real-world stories.
CORE Residents are part of a connected ecosystem of storytelling, research, and education. Each Resident is linked to broader CORE initiatives, thematic collections, and related films to provide deeper context. For example, polar explorer Sebastian Copeland is connected to the CORE Polar Initiative, while photographer Roberto Dutesco is part of CORE’s conservation-focused storytelling. These connections allow viewers to explore topics across multiple perspectives and formats.
CORE connects Residents to collections and initiatives to create a structured, immersive experience. Rather than presenting individual profiles in isolation, CORE organizes content around themes such as exploration, conservation, and global research. This approach helps viewers discover related stories, understand broader context, and engage more deeply with each subject.
These connections allow viewers to move seamlessly from a person to a topic, and from a film to a broader body of knowledge. A single story can expand into a full learning journey through CORE+, connecting real-world exploration, scientific data, and storytelling into one continuous experience.
