Children Playing, Clyde River (Kanngiqtugaapik), Nunavut, from Arctic Communities

Children Playing, Clyde River (Kanngiqtugaapik), Nunavut, from Arctic Communities 2014, Inkjet Print on Hahnemule Paper, 24 x 20 inches, edition of 9. These children were playing in Clyde River (Kanngiqtugaapik in the Inuktitut language, meaning “nice little inlet”). Clyde River is on Baffin Island, across the sea from Greenland. It is small, with a population of 930. Like most Arctic communities it is not connected to any other community by road. The only means of transport are snowmobile, sleds, all terrain vehicle, and air, with boats possible for several months a year. A guide in Clyde River that took me on a snowmobile had lost his uncle in a snowmobile accident. The only other snowmobile guide I had while photographing for the project, in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, had his father die in a snowmobile accident. Clyde River is so small that it has only one hotel, with six rooms. The people are friendly there. They do not often see outsiders. Half the population of Clyde River is under 18. Clyde River is surrounded by fjords that stretch to an ice cap.

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