Polar Night - Imperfect copy

Signed on a sticker
Second edition of 1500
10.5 × 13.5"
52 pages
10 b&w and 16 color plates
Singer-sewn binding with foil-stamped cover
Designed by Cody Haltom and Mark Mahaney
Trespasser

Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Utqiagvik, Alaska’s northernmost town. It explores prolonged darkness through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two-month shadow.

The unnatural lights that flare in the absence of the sun and the forms that emerge from the landscape reveal a world that is unexpectedly beautiful in both its softness and harshness. While the presence of climate change weighs heavily over this Arctic environment, Polar Night ultimately becomes a visual poem about endurance, isolation, and survival.