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After a long stay in several Canadian First Nation communities in the Northwest Territories, I decided to cross the vast expanse of Canada to an Inuit community of 1,396 people on the eastern part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Baffin Island, the homeland of the Inuit people is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. These photos were taken in Kinngait, a hamlet formerly known as Cape Dorset.

Michael Samayualie and Ivan Pootoogook

5 of 18 © 2025 Fran Antmann

Michael Samayualie and Ivan Pootoogook

Aggiuq Ashoona, Okpik Pitseolak's granddaughter.

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Aggiuq Ashoona, Okpik Pitseolak's granddaughter.

Udjualuk Etidloi fills a fuel drum.

7 of 18 © 2025 Fran Antmann

Udjualuk Etidloi fills a fuel drum.

Isacci Etidloi, Joanasie Salomonie, and Udjualuk Etidloi.

8 of 18 © 2025 Fran Antmann

Isacci Etidloi, Joanasie Salomonie, and Udjualuk Etidloi.

Evie Pootoogook

11 of 18 © 2025 Fran Antmann

Evie Pootoogook

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Angie Ashoona

Okpik Pitseolak   &...value to the others.”

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Okpik Pitseolak

“My art is not just for my own benefit, it is of value to our relatives, our children, our grandchildren. I am confident that what I do as an individual is of great value to the others.”

Okpik Pitseolak and her granddaughter.

14 of 18 © 2025 Fran Antmann

Okpik Pitseolak and her granddaughter.

Eyuka Pootoogook and her daughter, Evie.

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Eyuka Pootoogook and her daughter, Evie.

Mailaya Pootoogook and her son, Arn.

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Mailaya Pootoogook and her son, Arn.

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Baffin Island

Copyright Fran Antmann 2025

Updated Apr 2025

Location San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala

Topics Documentary, Photography, Photojournalism

In 2006, I arrived in Guatemala to continue my photography of indigenous people and I have continued to work there. It was 25 years after La Violencia in which over 200,000 Maya people were killed, and 400 of their villages, burnt off the map. The Guatemalan army attacked their cultural practices and traditions, destroying sacred lands and desecrated Maya rituals. For the survivors, it is not an event that has passed, but one that echoes in the lakes where they fish and wash their clothes, in the surrounding volcanic hills, in the tall standing corn along the water’s edge, like a phantom limb that still throbs. They struggle to move forward through a political landscape in which conflict has been halted but not resolved, where the perpetrators still hold power despite legal efforts to bring them to justice.

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