

Svalbard
Four days at 78° north, between a snowstorm, a blue hour and the return of the sun.
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A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
78° N / NORWAY

Four days at 78° north, between a snowstorm, a blue hour and the return of the sun.
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Four days at 78° north, between a snowstorm, a blue hour and the return of the sun.


A seaside clock: the Kurhaus, the pier and the light slipping into the North Sea.


One youth pass, a country of connections, and a very useful piece of paper.


An April evening, a tower turning gold, and a city that lets the new grow old.


Red-brick canals, a glass wave and a whole miniature world inside a warehouse.


Easter quiet, a cathedral measured in centuries and a slow crossing above the Rhine.


A spring garden that accepts what castles and cathedrals try to resist: time.


A small winter walk through canals, Christmas lights and the city's oldest hill.


Courtyards, football shirts and a stone forest that is never quite finished.


A giant's hand, a railway cathedral and a port that keeps making room for new stories.


Two days of walking through a city where even the journey underground becomes history.


A railway palace, a city written into music, and the weight of remembering.


Glass towers across the water, old gables over the bridge, and the city between them.


Two banks, yellow trams and a river holding beauty and remembrance together.


December sunlight, a forest of stone and a city comfortable with starting again.


Family visits, quiet trams and the old town turned upside down in the river.
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FROM A PLACE TO A LITTLE WORLD
The photographs belong to the journeys. The Hourline scenes come straight from the app’s artwork, with the same shapes and changing light. Keukenhof has a companion illustration made for this collection.
Photographs and recollections reflect each journey at the time it was made.