Mark Mahaney - Polar Night

Polar Night
Published by Trespasser
Second Edition of 1500
Photographs by Mark Mahaney

Details:
Edition of 1500
10.5 x 13.5. 52 pages
10 b&w and 16 color plates
Singer-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.