MERIDIAN
Issue 14 — Summer 2026
LETTER FROM THE COAST
The harbor at closing time
Photographs and field notes from six evenings in Essaouira.

Cold water, long light

Swimming the fjord towns of western Norway in the weeks when the sun barely sets.

The moss keepers

Three generations of gardeners tend Kyoto's oldest temple ground cover by hand.

Violet hour in the Atacama

Astronomers and vintners share the driest sky on earth, one hour apart.