Yule has always been a threshold season. A turning of the wheel where warmth becomes a prayer and the forest becomes a cathedral of shadow and spark. It is a time of lanterns, antlers, evergreen crowns, and the ancient promise that light will return even when the world feels sunless. It is in that sacred in-between where Pamela Salerno’s photography feels most at home.

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The work of Brazilian photographer Marina Utrabo is a perfect vessel for this threshold. Her imagery does not shy away from the truth of winter. She walks directly into the emotional landscape that Yule represents. Her portraits feel like myths pulled from rivers, from memory, from the places inside us that still speak in the language of tide and shadow.