Spirits of the White Night

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Ilulissat, Greenland

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In this pareidolic series, I wanted to pay homage to the town's namesake, "Ilulissat" (which is the Kalaallisut word for "icebergs"), but also consider many cultural aspects in the way I edited my photos. Given how climate change has affected the Land of Green, I decided to use a more hi-key approach to symbolize a fading of moments and constant change while also capturing the varied weather conditions from foggy water treks, cloud bursts over the icefjords and a sun that did not set to provide some beautiful colours. As the Inuit peoples of Greenland have a belief that everything has a soul, from the flora to the fauna, it was hard for me to not consider how the calving sounds of the icebergs themselves acted like the voices of spirits telling us, perhaps begging us, to listen to the delicate balances of the world.