We board a small boat and push out through the pack ice, the hull cutting slowly through frozen slabs that grind and shift around us. It is surreal — this white, broken landscape stretching in every direction, the cold coming up off the ice in waves. The deckhand stands ready at the bow with fish, […]
I’ll be honest with you: I am not an animal photographer. Landscapes and cityscapes — that’s my world. But that is exactly why I am here, standing in the frozen stillness of Hokkaido in the middle of winter, camera in hand, completely out of my comfort zone. There’s something else I should tell you, while […]


