A deep blue vertical crevasse cuts through pale glacier ice.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JINGYI (VICTOR) LI
ISSUE 01
A DIGITAL PHOTOBOOK

North of ordinary

ALASKA

ICE / WATER / WEATHER01
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21 PHOTOGRAPHS · ISSUE 01

Everything up there
had its own scale.

Mountains that made trees look like punctuation. Water that shifted from slate to turquoise. Ice that looked still until you remembered it was moving the whole time. Issue 01 is built as a digital photobook: a sequence shaped by distance, rhythm, and the slow approach toward blue ice. Weather grows larger, ice becomes luminous, and human warmth pushes against the cold.

A lone evergreen stands before a broad snow-covered mountain valley.
01

THRESHOLDOne tree, a lot of mountain

A dark mountain ridge rises into soft low cloud.
02

WEATHERWeather arriving without knocking

Turquoise water churns around rugged forested sea cliffs.
03

WATERThe coast, in an improbable teal

A brown bear stands among autumn brush in the Alaska landscape.
03A

WILDLIFEWhat the fence was hiding

A luminous cyan glacier draws the eye through dark mountains beneath an opening in a storm.
04

BEACONThe glacier became the light

A small blue iceberg floats on calm water beneath snowy mountains.
05

SCALEA small piece of something enormous

The textured blue face of a glacier meets dark water.
06

SURFACEBlue has more than one temperature

Broken glacier ice stretches toward a dark mountain horizon.
07

ARRIVALOn the other side of solid ground

A woman appears in silhouette against a wide snow-covered mountain landscape.
08

THRESHOLDStepping into the scale of it

A photographer stands among blue glacier ice formations.
09

LOOKINGThe landscape looking back

A vivid blue meltwater pool rests within a glacier beneath mountains.
10

MELTWATERA lake with temporary borders

Two people stand together inside a blue ice cave.
11

SHELTERUnder a ceiling that moves

A woman raises her hands to frame a distant glacier.
12

GESTURETrying to hold the whole view

Horizontal layers and trapped sediment form an abstract pattern in blue ice.
13

STRATAA history written sideways

A person holds and studies a clear piece of glacier ice.
14

TOUCHBorrowed for a minute

A small figure stands within towering blue walls of glacier ice.
15

HUMAN SCALEThe useful measure of small

A smiling man in winter clothing stands beside luminous glacier ice.
16

PORTRAITBlue light, briefly personal

A person carefully tests the surface of a glacier.
17

CAUTIONTrust, checked one step at a time

A tall forest waterfall throws a small rainbow through its mist.
18

FALLWeather making its own color

A formation of birds crosses a pale, unsettled Alaska sky.
19

PASSAGEA direction written overhead

A sea stack catches the last warm break of light beneath a dark coastal storm.
20

AFTER WEATHERA last light behind the sea stack

ISSUE 01 / 21 PHOTOGRAPHS

North of
ordinary.

A passage through mountain weather, coastal water, blue ice, and the brief human scale found between them.