One More Light · Lukas Mari

Svalbard

Edges of the Visible

The northernmost town in the world, where a couple of thousand people live at the edge of what the land will allow.

Colour against endless white. A reindeer between the houses, a rifle on the guide's shoulder, the light thinning toward the polar night. In all that space a person stays very small, sometimes barely visible at all.

Aerial view of Longyearbyen, a small colourful town on a fjord ringed by snow-covered mountains.
Rows of colourful wooden houses below snow-covered mountains, a street lamp in the foreground.
A row of small colourful cabins in the snow, mountains behind under a clear sky.
A husky tied up on a snowy street outside a bar, town buildings behind.
A person cycling along a cleared path through the snowy town, low sun behind the buildings.
A reindeer stands in the snow between houses, people and low sun behind.
A yellow vehicle drives down a snowy road trailing spray, backlit, town and mountains behind.
A house veranda hung with skis, gear and drying clothes above the snow.
A polar-bear warning sign beside a snowy road, mountains stretching behind.
A guide in a heavy parka stands in the snow with a rifle over his shoulder.
A guide seen from behind raises an arm toward the wide snowfield and mountains.
An old mining cable-car bucket hangs on wires above the town.
An orange pipeline on stilts crosses the snow, mountains behind.
A tiny lone figure almost disappears in a vast white field of snow.
Footprints lead up a snow slope toward the low sun.
A small red car on a wide snowfield below distant mountains.
A pyramid-shaped mountain rises from a smooth field of snow.
A frozen sea in front of low mountains, still and quiet.
Close-up of broken pack ice, plated fragments at the shore.
A backlit figure by the water at sunset, about to enter the cold sea.
A 'weapons forbidden' sign with a rifle pictogram at the airport.
An aircraft wing above the snow-covered Arctic on the way out.

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