Mark Mahaney
Polar Night
- PhotographerMark Mahaney
Felix Odell I absolutely love this project. The locations, the light and colours - Mark is a fantastic photographer with a distinctive and captivating style. He skillfully sets the mood, masters light, and shapes context with precision. His work consistently transforms each image into a masterpiece - an artistry I truly admire.
The project
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.
