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No. 07  ·  Photo essay

A year on Hale Island

One roll of film a month. Mara Lind went back to the island where she grew up and photographed the year as it came.

Words and photographs by Mara Lind  ·  9 min read
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A lone walker far out on a white frozen shore under a pale sky

01  Jan, the frozen shore

A wooden pier running out into a calm, misty sea at dawn

02  Feb, the last ferry

Thin birch trunks rising out of green undergrowth in soft light

03  Mar, the birch wood

A red rowing boat on a still lake below blue mountains

04  Apr, the red boat

A long green hill rising against a clear blue sky

05  May, Long Hill

A woman with red hair wading through clear shallow water

06  Jun, first swim

A small figure walking across a wide, wet beach at low tide

07  Jul, low tide

A white lighthouse on a green headland above the blue sea

08  Aug, the light

A woman in a yellow coat looking up at a green mountain

09  Sep, back up the hill

A lone pine tree growing from a rock above the sea

10  Oct, the old pine

A walker in a red jacket on a grassy ridge path at sunset

11  Nov, the ridge path

The sun rising over layered blue mountains

12  Dec, the shortest day

“In February the ferry stopped running, and for six weeks the island was ours.”