
Light for the Sleeping
Weathered crosses rise from snowdrifts like prayers etched into wind, quietly watching the horizon. This is not just a place of rest — it is a place of return.
An Inuit Youth Perspective by Tony Eetak
Step into the world as seen through the lens of Tony Eetak, a young Inuit photographer bearing witness to the profound transformations shaping his homeland. This virtual exhibition offers an intimate and powerful journey into the Arctic. Eetak’s images capture the delicate beauty and increasing fragility of a world undergoing rapid change. From endless ice and shifting weather patterns to the resilience of his community amidst these challenges, his photographs are a poignant testament to the deep connection between people and place. Experience the Arctic through a fresh, vital perspective – a call for understanding and action in the face of a changing climate.
Weathered crosses rise from snowdrifts like prayers etched into wind, quietly watching the horizon. This is not just a place of rest — it is a place of return.
The ice stretches out forever, meeting the sky in a blur of white and blue.
Sun and ice. We stand here, on the edge of forever. Where does the light lead us?
This road, it’s our everyday path. We walk it, we drive it. It connects us.
Rubber and frost meet, right here. Where have we been? Where are we going? That horizon…
Oil heats our homes, but it also represents a cycle that’s melting the ground beneath us.
Ice rises like fingers sculpted in a moment of thaw—sharp, delicate, reaching toward the low sun. In this blur of focus, what is foreground and what is memory? A crystallized tension sits between presence and erosion, the dirt and grains trapped inside as witness. Nothing here is still, though everything looks like it might be.
My photography is a reflection of the world I see, the world I’m growing up in, as an Inuit youth who grew up in Nunavut.