Exhibition: Life On The Line - People of the Arctic Circle

Photographic exhibition has been extended to 29 July

Exhibition: Life On The Line - People of the Arctic Circle

Athy Heritage Centre MuseumAthy


Event Details

  • Fri 1 Jan - Fri 29 Jul  2016


  • Venue Details
    Athy Heritage Centre Museum

    Shackleton Museum
    Town Hall, Emily Square
    Athy


  • 059-8633075
  • athyheritage@eircom.net
  • www.athyheritagecentre-museum.ie


ALASKA | CANADA | GREENLAND | ICELAND | NORWAY | SWEDEN | FINLAND | RUSSIA


LIFE ON THE LINE celebrates the variety of existence in the circumpolar Arctic, in the face of overwhelming environmental and cultural change. 

Photographer Cristian Barnett has journeyed to the Arctic Circle, an invisible line of latitude 66 degrees and 33 minutes north of the Equator. The line intersects eight countries and is home to a rich diversity of peoples for whom the sun never sets in high summer, nor rises in deepest winter. All the photographs were taken on film within 35 miles of the Arctic Circle.

Bear Hunter | Ski-Doo Racer | Inuit Sculptor | Blogger | Grandmother | Bush Pilot | Reindeer Jockey | Mayor | Village Elder | Shaman | Wine Maker | Adventure Tourist | Taxidermist | Husky Trainer | Puffin Catcher | Lighthouse Keeper | Foot Therapist | Entrepreneur | Park Warden | Drum Dancer | Fjord Postman | Champion Wrestler | Sausage Merchant | Catholic Priest | Storm Chasers | Breakdancer | Expedition Leader | Mammoth Carver | Lifeguard | Sami Singer | Birdwatcher | Beauty Queen... PEOPLE OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

Featuring:

  • NORTHERN JOURNEYS Cristian Barnett and Huw Lewis-Jones
  • CAPTURING LIGHT Hugh Brody


CRISTIAN BARNETT is a well-respected portrait photographer. For the last twenty years he has been photographing people on his travels around the world. His editorial images have appeared in leading magazines, including Vogue, Telegraph, Financial Times and Country Living and as an award-winning food photographer he has worked with Michelin-starred chefs across Europe. He began shooting among the people of the Arctic Circle in 2006 and has crossed sea-ice, forest and tundra with many indigenous groups, including the Greenlandic Inuit and the Nenet of Siberia. His next project takes him to the jungles of Colombia, documenting the culture of chocolate.

HUW LEWIS-JONES is a historian of exploration with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Huw was Curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and the National Maritime Museum in London and is now an award-winning author, who writes and lectures widely about adventure and the visual arts. He travels in the Arctic and Antarctica each year working as a polar guide and has a fascination with remote islands and wilderness environments. His books include Ocean Portraits, The Crossing of Antarctica, The Conquest of Everest, which won the History Award at the Banff Mountain Festival, and most recently Across the Arctic Ocean.

HUGH BRODY is a celebrated writer, anthropologist and filmmaker. His books include The Peoples Land, Maps and Dreams and Living Arctic. His award-winning reflection on the human condition, The Other Side of Eden, was born from years of living and working with the peoples of the Arctic. Hugh Brody has spent a long career devoted to telling the stories and making films that explain and advance the rights of indigenous people. Since 1997, he has worked with the South African San Institute on oral history and land rights in the Southern Kalahari. He is an Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute and holds the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at theUniversity of the Fraser Valley.


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