Polar Night 2681

Archival ink on Photo Rag Baryta

Paper size 8x10" (aprox. 20x25cm)

Image size 18 x 23 cm

Edition of 100

Comes with a signed and numbered certificate sticker 

This print is an outtake from Polar Night — a variation of angle, crop and treatment to an image of the same scene. Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska’s northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It’s an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun’s absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It’s hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.