PORTFOLIO

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Numb Fingers (2025)
Filmed and recorded by Justin Wright

Cellist and composer Justin Wright travels to Svalbard, an archipelago close to the North Pole, to serenade the dying glaciers with the most northerly outdoor cello performances in history.

Color correction: Martin Gaumond

Audio mixing: by Pietro Amato

Then, Again (2023)
Composed by Justin Wright
Performed by Alarm Will Sound & Charlotte Mundy

A setting of Hildegard von Bingen’s O Pastor Animarum

Eraser (2024)
Composed by Justin Wright
Performed by So Percussion
Text by Kathy Sirico, Narration by Talea Lupin

Magnetic mallets gradually erase two long tape loops. The text excerpt is from Kathy Sirico’s poem Interview with a Bone, which was written during our travels in Svalbard, when we found ourselves in a field full of thousands of old whale skeletons.

If Two Could Travel as a Particle of Light (2024)
Composed by Justin Wright
Performed by Allyson Clare (violin) and Nick Pauly (viola) at the Yerkes Observatory

Polar Days #1 (2025)
Photo by Justin Wright

During summer in Svalbard, an archipelago close to the North Pole, the sun never sets but circles overhead for months—this is the polar day. Working there over the solstice, I designed and built 360-degree pinhole cameras, exposing them for two weeks. The sun’s path etched so deeply into the photo paper that no development was needed. These are the first analog photos ever to capture the midnight sun’s full path. Warming at six times the global average, Svalbard acts as a canary in a coal mine for climate research, yet the archipelago’s remoteness and desolate, dramatic beauty have led to our perception of it as an obscure, alien realm. In capturing the otherworldly nature of this little-known region, this image brings the reality of climate change closer to home.