Sea ice stories

In 60 years the Nunavut’s inuit have gone from nomadism to the addictive use of social networks. Within a generation they have gone through more upheavals than their ancestors in 5000 years, when survival depended only on hunting. Sedentarization (8000 inhabitants in Iqaluit), demography (57% under 25 years old), food (from raw seals to industrial dishes), everything has changed. They abandoned life on the sea ice, gave up a millennial culture. Idleness, poverty, depressions now undermine their daily lives. Alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, homicides, suicides, explode. What hopes for a young inuk? The sea ice? She melts. Taking away the memory of a territory that so many families have walked on. She, the witness of all the events, all the childbirths, all the disappearances on the ice. The link was carnal. I wanted to interrogate this too beautiful sea ice. Look she in her eyes to sense the future of young people from the top of the planet.