Bare Bones
(M.Sabarinath)
An ivory gull blends beauty and toughness in equal measure. It can ride shotgun with polar bears, ready to snatch morsels from a fresh kill. But hot bear dung can also sustain it if no meat is on offer. Ivory gulls made the most of Svalbard's brief whaling boom, which peaked in the early 1600s. Most humans that came here then were intent on killing large sea mammals (trapping land animals came later). Now many residents, such as scientists at Ny Alesund, the northernmost permanent settlement in the world, focus on studying Arctic wildlife, not killing it. The settlement is where Pål pictured this gull, rising like an angel and making the shape of a whale vertebra. It's a study in form, motion and - perhaps - history.
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