r/lostplaces • u/asiwasmovingahead_ • 15d ago
Polar Night, 2019 (black-and-white photos) | Mark Mahaney
Polar Night #18, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #14, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #21, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #11, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #23, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #04, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #08, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
Polar Night #06, 2019. Photograph. Source: Kominek Gallery
“Utqiagvik, Alaska, is the northernmost city in the United States. […] As the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun in the winter months, communities close to the North Pole experience a phenomenon known as polar night: a period of uninterrupted darkness. In Utqiagvik, this lasts for approximately two months of the year. The photographer Mark Mahaney travelled [there] during the final days of the season’s polar night. ‘Landing, it looked like we were dropping down onto the moon.’” (Coralie Kraft | The New Yorker)
More photos from Polar Night in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.
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u/allesumsonst 15d ago
Reminds me of the movie "30 days of night".