Ragnar Axelsson - Faces of the North |
Le vide-grenier du dimanche. Deux clichés du photojournaliste islandais Ragnar Axelsson (b.1958), issues de sa série Faces of the North, qui s'est étendue sur près de vingt ans et a fait en 2004 l'objet d'une magnifique publication.
Celui que l'on surnomme parfois Rax a consacré sa carrière à documenter la vie des peuples polaires, et leurs modes d'existence en voie de disparition.
After accompanying Artic hunters for almost 40 years, witnessing the changes in Greenland's sea ice, and sensing friends' and hunters' worries about their future, one cannot look away.
There is no doubt in their minds that something is happening. When passing a house in Thule some thirty years ago, an old hunter said , "There is something wrong. It should not be like this. The big ice is sick."