Niels Motzfeldt's Inussuk sculpture stands here in a snow-covered Nuuk, its three pillars united and leaning on one another, overlooking the Colonial Harbour and fjord. The stones were gathered from across the country, and the sculpture marks the start of Greenlandic self governance on June 21, 2009. "Inussuk" roughly translates to "something that resembles a human being."

A car sits half-swallowed by snow outside a house — whether its owner is on a long vacation, gave up on winter driving, or simply forgot where they parked remains a mystery.

The Herrnhut House, once the center of the Moravian Brethren Mission in Greenland, sits under a heavy grey sky as the spring thaw sets in, snow retreating to patches across the brown tundra.

A distant firework bursts over Nuuk, seen from a snow-covered street in Qinngorput on a winter night.

Blok T, seen here on an overcast, cold spring day in April, is one of the original identical housing blocks at Tuapannguit. Its sister blocks were torn down over a decade ago and replaced with modern apartments.