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The stories behind the photographs, from where they were made to what happened just outside the frame.

Field note · Svalbard · 81° N

Seven days of daylight

A week in Svalbard in May, when the sun circles the sky without setting. Mountains in the morning, walruses at ten at night and little auks after midnight, all in the same low light.

May 2024 · 2 min read
Behind the frame · Svalbard · 81° N

Wings up over a gray shore

An Arctic tern with its wings raised over a soft gray shore, made at 600 mm on the morning of 13 May 2024.

May 2024 · 1 min read
Field note · Iceland · 64° N

Back to Iceland

Six years after a single day on the south coast, a second trip in 2023: a red crater, ash-banded icebergs, heavy surf and humpbacks off the north coast.

2023 · 1 min read

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Low ceiling · 81° N
81° N
Dispatch No. 01

A week of daylight in Svalbard. The full collection is up now.

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Where the work was made Drag to turn the globe
Svalbard 81° N
Iceland 64° N
Ireland 53° N
The Waddington 51.4° N
Italy 42 to 45° N
The American West 38 to 46° N
Utah 38 to 41° N
Fiji 18.0° S
DERMAN STUDIOS PHOTOGRAPHS BY STUART DERMAN

Photography · Salt Lake City · 40.8° N

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Colophon · Set in Archivo and IBM Plex Mono · Made in Salt Lake City, 40.8° N · Relief traced from Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data (Mapzen), with data from USGS 3DEP, SRTM and GMTED2010, Copernicus EU-DEM, © Kartverket, ArcticDEM (DigitalGlobe imagery, NSF awards 1043681, 1559691 and 1542736), the Open Government Licence (Canada) and NOAA ETOPO1

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