“Nunavik” by Photographer Alexi Hobbs

Since 2014, Montreal-based photographer Alexi Hobbs (beforehand featured right here), has traveled no less than as soon as per yr to Nunavik, homeland of the Inuit of Quebec, on project for Air Inuit, documenting optimistic forces in many of the fourteen communities. “Throughout these travels, in an try to maneuver away from the same old romantic and folkloric notions with which southerners have historically portrayed the North, I’ve additionally created a physique of labor representing my private expertise inside the Inuit neighborhood,” he explains.

The ensuing collection, “Nunavik,” is an intimate portrait of the panorama and its inhabitants. Hobbs elaborates: “Utilizing symbolism, and making an allowance for the historic and present context  of colonization, numerous themes of recorded historical past and up to date life  within the North are subtly dropped at the forefront by collaborative picture  making with the individuals I’ve met within the numerous communities. Specializing in  the thought of contrasts, which permeates my expertise of the North, the work  combines a documentary strategy with the visible language of desires.”

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