Nuuk, Greenland. 3rd May, 2017. Ebbe Volquardsen, junior professor in cultural history at the University of Nuuk, with a book in his office in Nuuk, Greenland, 3 May 2017. Around 50 German ex-pats live on the sparsely populated Arctic island. Photo: Julia

Left to right: Gordon Sander, Ulrik Pram Gad, Thorsten Wagner. Background image: The Nuuk skyline at night, photo by Quintin Soloviev.