Volcanic Revelations

thoughts about the emergence of creativity.

Katia Krafft in Iceland, shot by Maurice.

A blank page is potential

After getting married, Maurice and Katia Krafft decided not to have children. Instead, they chose to dedicate their life to the one thing they loved more than eachother: volcanoes.

For more than twenty years, they spent their life documenting volcanic eruptions, camping near craters, taking samples in aluminium suits, and recording some of the most incredible footage of volcanoes. Maurice and Katia were volcanologists, a geologist and a geochemist, but they were also artists. The footage that Maurice filmed was worthy of an art house cinema—breathtaking, haunting, and often terrifying. Each frame captured the raw, sublime beauty of Earth’s most violent forces, turning science into poetry. And the beautiful words that lived in Katia’s diary were nothing short of poetry. “Understanding is Love’s other name”, she reflects in one of her diaries.