Life inside the Arctic
Our first story with National Geographic is now live! My writing, Eric’s photographs, our experience in four Arctic nations.
Jenny
No story is true for everyone
We’ve been around the world. Into Russia from the east and out through the west. Everyday I’ve come across different representations of culture and different ways to share it. Like this Sakha mural in a grocery store in downtown Yakutsk. Eric set up the tripod, and I asked for a selfie, and a few bystanders…
Grit behind the scenes
Office time can happen anywhere. And hey, at least here I can do some ironing. Mostly, I tell you about the action, sometimes the emotion, rarely the straight-up behind-the-scenes, office-style elbow grease to make it all happen. I’ve just spent an hour writing about that stuff, and it’s just too boring to share, so I’ll…
The Day of Thank You
I was pretty homesick by the time we got back to the apartment. It was Thanksgiving back home, and my mind kept traveling around the world to my friends and family in Canada. I gave myself a few minutes to sulk (not many, I promise), then put on some music, unpacked our bag of groceries,…
Living with unanswerable questions
Here in Chukotka, I have so many unanswerable questions each day. Stories–sometimes disguised as wreckage, litter, or a closed door–play hard to get. How many questions from this one extraordinary scene? A torn up fuselage perched beside the road, its story lost to local memory. Maybe the ravens know what happened here. Maybe they can…
We are National Geographic Explorers
We meet up in the darnedest places, and we’re celebrating! We are National Geographic Explorers!! Meet the North is now supported by the National Geographic Society through the Committee for Research and Exploration. And we were on the National Geographic Explorer when we found out. How cool is that!? Here, Eric Guth and I are…
Reunion in Chukotka
Provideniya, Chukotka. A town that immediately captured my heart. Perhaps you know this feeling, when you arrive somewhere new and foreign, but something about it fits your spirit. Like it has something you’ve been looking for. Here, our theme is layers. Layers of colour, texture, history, and emotion. The layers you go through when you…
Back in the Arctic for the summer
We’re back! We’re up north! After some time away from you all, it’s time to keep this journey going. Can you guess where we are? Where is this sunflower growing? Happy Summer! Photo by Eric Guth.
In the frame
When you tell a story, especially through social media, there’s an expectation that you put yourself in the frame too. That often means sharing photos of your best days and learning to skip from highlight to highlight – like jumping across elevated points of land on a rainy day, trying to keep your shoes dry….
Aimless wandering
Springtime looks different around the Arctic Circle, but don’t let the snow fool you. Renewal is in the air, no matter the temperature. It’s early morning here, and I’m snowshoeing deeper into this valley . . . for no particular reason. We wanted to get some early morning photos on the theme of human migration,…