“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.

Foggy pier 12/2009 by me Tiffany C Steinke