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The seemingly endless and frozen landscapes around Greenland’s indigenous villages are vanishing and with them, a way of life.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/greenlands-endless-for-now-landscape/?&_r=0&module=CloseSlideshow®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-9&action=keypress&contentCollection=Blogs&pgtype=imageslideshow
Greenland is frequently in the news these days, its melting icebergs and receding sea ice a bellwether for climate change. But when the Finnish photographer Tiina Itkonen first visited the massive Arctic island in 1995, no one spoke of such things. Instead, she was fascinated by the indigenous Inuit and Inughuit cultures, and the impossible hues of an endless landscape. She was so intoxicated by the colors that she gave up shooting in black-and-white.