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. It’s a world of stark beauty, of vastness that can take your breath away, but it’s also a world that is changing, and changing in ways that we can’t ignore. These images are my attempt to capture that duality: the enduring power of our land and the subtle, sometimes unsettling, shifts that are happening around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this mini virtual exhibition, I chose my home community. Arviat. Nunavut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Growing up here, you learn to read the land. You learn to see the signs. It’s not always the big, dramatic changes that tell the story. Sometimes, it’s the small things: the way the snow melts a little earlier each year, the places where the ice is thinner than it used to be, the way the light itself seems different. These photographs are my way of documenting those subtle changes, of bearing witness to the transformation of a landscape that is deeply woven into our identity and our way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love to compose my own music. I can play the guitar, the piano, keyboard and have been learning to use digital tools as well. And drums. This project let me combine both photography and music in new ways and to explore how we can use them to tell stories about our people, and our climate with a sense of dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n