Alexander C. Kaufman

This rock formation in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, is formed from silt deposited from the glacier river that feeds into this fjord. 

The foothills around Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, covered in low-slung heather and Arctic brush. 

The vast Greenland ice sheet seen in the distance from the craggy foothills around Kangerlussuaq. 

A scientist walks in the grassy foothills at the face of Russell Glacier, about 25 kilometers from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. 

The face of Russell Glacier. 

The face of Russel Glacier. 

The view of from atop Russel Glacier. 

The expanse of ice from atop Russell Glacier. 

A polar microbiologist walks along the edge of a pond near the face of Russell Glacier. 

A small pile of stones on the road leading from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, to Russell Glacier. It is the longest road in Greenland. 

Bibiane Petersen, 26, moved back to Kangerlussuaq, where she grew up, in 2016, with her young son, Rico Ryan. Like most people in this town of less than 500, she works at the airport, Greenland's biggest. 

Rikka Jensen Trolle, 33, moved to Kangerlussuaq two weeks ago before this photo was taken for a job at the airport. He's from further up north, where his family live a traditional life hunting and fishing. 

Knud Lyberth, 27, and his brother 16-year-old brother, Enos, as they were walking back from an unsuccessful reindeer hunt. They said the reindeer have become more scarce over the past decade as the effects of climate change have become more apparent.

Sesco Lorenz, 42, just hours after he descended from a month-long solo camping trip in the foothills nearby. He's a graphic designer who splits his time between Sweden and Germany, and does tour guide work on the side. He was looking for a hotel with a shower. 

School children wait for a ride outside the lone school house in Kangerlussuaq. 

An empty street in Amsterdam one morning in May 2022.

Boats in a canal one May 2022 afternoon in Amsterdam.

A bird flies past a monument one morning in Amsterdam’s central district.

On a hot Saturday afternoon in June, traffic backed up on Manhattan’s FDR Drive and a ferry cruised southward past the Ravenswood generating station.

A boat passes through a canal in the Dutch capital.

A coal fired power station in the Netherlands’ northernmost province.

Wind turbines facing the Wadden Sea on the coast of Groningen, the northernmost province of the Netherlands.

Wind turbines rise from a field in Groningen.

Wind turbines rise from a field in Groningen.

Flowers bloom outside a grocery store in Zaandam, a suburb just north of Amsterdam.

A view of the Borssele nuclear power station, the Netherlands’ only nuclear reactor.

A view from inside the Borssele nuclear power station’s reactor room.

A storage pool for nuclear fuel rods inside the Borssele power station.

A view from outside the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on Olkiluoto Island off Finland’s southwest coast. With the opening of Olkiluoto-3, the long-delayed third reactor, in March, this tiny fleck of land now has the capacity to power nearly 40% of Finland.

A wood-pellet plant owned by the British utility giant Drax mills wood in this remote Mississippi town to be shipped to England and burned for electricity. The milling process has badly polluted the air in Blackmon Hole, a Black-owned trailer park next door

Steam and smoke rise from the Drax wood pellet plant and blow into Blackmon Hole, where young children live.

A gull flies near Astoria, Queens one afternoon.

A bride and groom pose for photos under the Hell Gate Bridge as the afternoon sun sets.

The Triboro bridge seen from Astoria Park.

A patch of sunlight on a building in Manhattan’s Herald Square.

A lake in Indian Peaks Wilderness, near Boulder, Colorado.

A glacial lake on a summer day.

Yellow flowers grow next to a verdant glacial lake.

The treeline of pines contrasts with the rocky mountain.

A river runs through the wilderness area.

Bare trees like this could make for tinder in Colorado’s wildfires.

Peter Grasso of New York poses for a portrait atop a mountain near Golden, Colorado.

A protest camp on Playa Los Almendros in Rincón, Puerto Rico, where demonstrators fought to block construction of an illegal private swimming pool on a public beach where endangered sea turtles nest.

Children swim in the waves at a beach in Rincón, Puerto Rico, where protesters camped out to block construction of an illegal private swimming pool on a public beach where endangered sea turtles nest. Heavily-armed police swarmed the area, including in a boat.

Ruperto Chaparro, director of the University of Puerto Rico’s Sea Grant program, said Puerto Rican authorities sent police to crush the demonstrations against a private pool on a public beach in Rincón, Puerto Rico to send a signal to wealthy Americans considering relocating to Puerto Rico that buying waterfront property here can, in fact, include a piece of Caribbean coastline devoid of actual Puerto Ricans.

A demonstrator poses for a portrait at the protest camp in Rincón, Puerto Rico.

A beachfront property collapsed as Puerto Rico’s western coastline crumbled, cutting off the beach with rubble and rusty debris. A family of beachgoers crossed in the shallow water in front of the rubble.

A frog in a shallow pool.

A lake on a cloudy day.

A tiny salamander swims in the cupped hands of the photographer’s friend.

A spider hangs from a leaf.

A vegetable garden on a public plot in Huntington, a populous town on Long Island’s north shore.

Afternoon light reflects off the windows of an adjacent building in Helsinki, Finland.

The boxy buildings here contain ONKALO, the world’s first permanent storage site for radioactive waste. Beneath the surface are tunnels going deep into bedrock that hasn’t moved in billions of years, where the spent fuel rods will be entombed for 100,000 years.

Yellow busses lined up outside the American school in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Afternoon sun cuts through a valley of buildings in Manhattan.

A view from inside Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.

A thermal-solar energy unit, which generates high heat from sunlight, on a test site owned by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s state-controlled renewable energy company.

A building next to the seafaring museum in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Grass grows on a hill on Governors Island in New York City.

A thermal-solar energy unit, which generates high heat from sunlight, on a test site owned by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s state-controlled renewable energy company.

Solar panels atop a building in Masdar City, the development run by Abu Dhabi’s state-controlled renewable energy company.

April Hughes Kaufman, the photographer’s lovely mother, poses for a portrait on the beach near Kismet, Fire Island.

Ryder and Julian Guérin, two brothers from Beverley, Massachusetts (and the photographer’s beloved nephews), feast on a haul from Economy Candy in Manhattan.

A moth found floating one morning in a day-old pitcher of puerh tea. With some help from the photographer, the moth survived and made it to a safe, sunny window.

On Fourth of July weekend, the American flag is seen behind barriers on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.