'About Laurent'
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Alaska365 wants to inspire you and transport you, daily, even just for a fleeting moment, through space and time to Alaska... a visually stunning place, at once precious and harsh, vast and vibrant with life. Alaska truly stretches our capacity to comprehend the meaning of wilderness.

This journal is a daily reflection of my ongoing exploration of Alaska. Alaska365 will take you through the seasons: the explosion of life in spring, the endless flood of light illuminating our summer nights, the vibrant tapestry of color in fall, and the silent flickering of the Northern Lights on cold winter nights.

Portrait

Imagine standing at the edge of tomorrow, in the middle of the narrowest expanse of water between North America and Russia, and one of the most extreme and isolated places on this earth. My location is the International Dateline, about 25 miles west of the Alaska mainland, and the mountaineous ridge reflected in my goggles is part of Big Diomede Island in Russia.
(Picture credit: Dixie Dansercoer)

 

Join me on my journeys off the beaten path, across vast tundra and taiga, up jagged mountains and down braided rivers, along windswept coastlines and into remote fishing and hunting camps and villages. Through daily images, I want to convey the seasonal rhythms, the eternal ebb and flow of tides and life, and the heartbeat of the land and people who call it home.

An Alaskan resident of over 10 years, I currently live on the windswept Bering Sea Coast in the small town of Nome with my partner Greta and our little son Florian.

I have been privileged to explore some of Alaska's most remote corners on foot, ski or by boat and plane, as well as climb some of its highest summits. To learn more about my photography, I invite you to visit my website www.laurentdick.com.

Enjoy Alaska365.com and remember what Martin Buber once said: "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

Safe travels,

Laurent Dick,
Nome Alaska - April 2005

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