Light on frozen landscapes
From 25 February to 10 March, Graeme Chesters, the first recipient of AP’s Rising Star Bursary, made his second trip to document the people and landscape around Longyearbyen – the northernmost town in the world, located on the Island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. The goal of Graeme’s second trip was threefold. First, to be present during the return of the sun festival ‘Solfestuka’ where the community comes together to mark the return of the sunlight. Second, to document both life and landscape outside the city confines of Longyearbyen by travelling to former Russian mining settlements; and third, to document those working on environmental research on Svalbard.
The bursary, arranged in partnership with leading used specialist MPB, gives
