Mark Mahaney - Polar Night

Polar NightPublished by TrespasserSecond Edition of 1500Photographs by Mark Mahaney Details:Edition of 150010.5 x 13.5. 52 pages10 b&w and 16 color platesSinger-sewn binding with foil stamped cover Book: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.