Lonesome light at the boardwalk
A single lamp holds a pool of light against the dark, the empty boardwalk deck glowing alone at the edge of the Nuuk night.
Photos from Greenland

A single lamp holds a pool of light against the dark, the empty boardwalk deck glowing alone at the edge of the Nuuk night.

A veiled September morning sun breaks through the clouds over snow-dusted peaks near the entrance to Kobbefjord, known in Greenlandic as Kangerluarsunnguaq, its light scattered across the fjord waters south of Nuuk.

Low clouds cling to the granite cliffs of Quassussuaq (Danish: Lille Malene) above the still, green waters of the lake Qallussuaq, known in Danish as Cirkussøen, or "Circus Lake" in English.

A spring day at Quassussuaq (Lille Malene) with the partly snow-covered Ukkusissaq (Store Malene) in the background.

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.




Pale blue chunks of sea ice drift in the calm water off Nuuk, seen from the snow-covered wooden boardwalk leading down to the Colonial Harbour.

Sisimiut has a tiny sandy beach located a few kilometers outside the city centre towards the airport. Here captured in the late fall.

A view from the mountain Quassussuaq, looking north east across the Nuup Kangerlua on an overcast afternoon in early May 2025.

The historic Noorliit Cemetery in Nuuk, established during the 18th-century Moravian mission.

A sea-level view toward the neighborhood around the road of Qernertunnguit in Nuuk.

Overlooking the harbor in Sisimiut, the sculpture Aalisartoq (“The Fisherman”) stands as a quiet tribute.

Blocks of pale blue sea ice pile along the shore near Nuuk in March 2025, after an unusually heavy build-up of drift ice packed the coast and parts of the Nuuk Fjord, the older ice glowing against a grey winter sky.