Richard Harrington, Theresie, three-year-old daughter of Erkuaktok (Iquugaqtuq), a Pelly Bay (Arvilikjuaq) Inuk, standing next to a snowman carved by her father, 1951.
“In the late 1940s, Richard Harrington, a renowned German-born Canadian photographer, began the first of his trips to some of the most remote places of the world with the intention to document the lives and customs of indigenous people before they disappear. He traveled extensively, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Albania to Zaire, in a search for a people who maintained to preserve their unique culture within their distinct homelands. Today, eleven years after his death, Harrington is best known for his photos of nomadic Inuit and their struggle for survival after the annual caribou migration changed their usual route and bypassed them…” https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4Bp0-gBTD/?igshid=1svizfiu9m7ht














