A Warm Feeling for the Arctic

A Warm Feeling for the Arctic

For 30 years, the photographer Bill Hess has moved happily — sometimes by dog sled — among the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/a-warm-feeling-for-the-arctic/

To many Americans, Wasilla, Alaska, seems like a very distant corner of the national map. For the photographer Bill Hess, 60, it is just the starting point.