Icelandic photographer, Ragnar Axelsson, has been travelling to Greenland for the past 30 years, documenting the impact of climate change on the Inuit communities of the Arctic.
These are photographs from his book Last Days of the Arctic, a record of the changing daily life and culture of some of the most remote communities in the world.
A girl in a swing, taken in a little village called Tinnittaqilaq, Greenland.
Huge iceberg, taken close to the Baffin Islands, (on the ice between The Baffin Island and Greenland).
Mikile, hunter from Qaanaaq, Thule (Greenland), taken on the ice at Ingelfield fjord. Mikile is fixing his dogs.
Hjelmer Hammeken, hunter from Scoresbysund waiting for a seal to come up trough a hole in the ice. Hunters can wait for hours to catch a seal to eat and feed the dogs. The temperature was close to minus 35 Celsius.
A hunters dog on the ice near the Baffin Islands.
Dog howling in the fog in front of the village Qaanaaq, Thule (Greenland).
Dogs fall into a crack in the ice as the ice was braking up and a glacier storm was coming fast. The glacier storm (Piteraq) can hit in few minutes with a violent force
Hunters from Thule jumping on thin ice with a Narwhal on the end of the line, trying to get to a safer ice. It is getting more and more difficult for the hunters to go to the edge of the ice because of thinning.
A Piteraq, (glacier storm) hitting the village of Sermiliqaq. A Piteraq can be so strong it can blow up houses. Three people died in that storm.
Angry polar bear on the ice near Baffin Island.
Sunset in the village of Tinnittaqilaq – young girls playing as the temperature drops to minus 25 Celsius. The long winter nights are closing in.
An elderly woman in the window of her house in the village of Tasiusaq, Greenland.
Masauna Kristiansen, hunter from Thule on his dog sled on his way to the edge of the ice where his hunting grounds are.
Elderly couple in Brattahlid, Greenland, looking to the sky – facing a new Greenland?
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