02/05/2026
It’s a bit strange at first, realising the sun just doesn’t go down anymore. Up here in Svalbard, around mid April, it simply stays. It moves in a slow circle, a little higher, a little lower, but never actually disappears behind the horizon.
That means there’s no real evening and no clear end to a day. The light just keeps going, and after a while you stop thinking about time in the usual way. You eat when you’re hungry, you go outside when something catches your attention, not because the clock says it’s time.
What surprises most people is how soft the light is. Even in the middle of the night, the sun stays relatively low in the sky, so everything stretches out into long shadows and warm tones that last for hours.
It never feels harsh, more like a constant golden hour that just shifts slightly as the day goes on.
For photography, it changes everything. You’re not chasing light anymore or rushing to catch a sunrise or sunset. You just work with what’s there, when it feels right.
It’s one of those things that’s hard to explain properly before you’ve seen it, but once you’re here, it makes complete sense.
