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Visions of Alaska: Remembering Japanese Photographer Hoshino Michio
The award-winning photographer Hoshino Michio (1952–96) had an innate talent for capturing intimate moments from the wilds of Alaska.
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His photos are slivers of time that show his subjects, sometimes no more than tiny figures in the foreground, set amid vast expanses of forest, sea, mountain, tundra, or ice. Through Hoshino’s lens viewers are present for such timeless Arctic scenes as polar bears sauntering side by side through an expansive, frozen environment, a herd of caribou fording a mirror-smooth river, and the Aurora Borealis dancing across the rolling, snow-covered landscape.
A mother polar bear and her cubs in a world of snow.
Hoshino was also a talented writer who eloquently conveyed the human face of Alaska in his thoughtful essays.
He traversed the Alaskan landscape for nearly two decades, telling the stories of the land and its inhabitants, until his journey was tragically cut s