Title: Polar Night
Artist: Mark Mahaney
Trespasser Books
26.5 x 34 cm
52 pages
Softcover with Singer-sewn binding and foil-stamped cover
Design by Cody Haltom & Mark Mahaney
Texts by Adam Popescu & Mark Mahaney
English text
Second edition
2021
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.
- From the publisher’s website
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.
- From the publisher’s website
