ARCTIC LANDSCAPES

These are a selection from over a 1000 photographs produced over 2 1/2 months while living alone, in a tent, on the tundra west of Hudson Bay.

Each day I would set out walking in a particular direction. Along the way, I would stop and photograph. After 4 or 5 hours I would turn around and walk back. The next day I would shift my direction by roughly 5° and repeat the process.

The idea was to locate myself in an environment containing few, if any of what might be considered traditional pictorial markers – somewhere that I was unlikely to find any signs saying, “Kodak Picture Spot”. I wanted to see what could be done with it.

NW of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

62° 50’ 29.80” N  92° 09’ 29.34” W

June 13, 1980

Marble island, N.W.T.

62° 40’ 18.77” N  91° 10’ 57.10” W

July 26, 1980

NW of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

62° 50’ 18.41” N  92° 08’ 45.48” W

June 06, 1980

Hudson’s Bay, Nunavut

62° 50’ 51.28” N  92° 07’ 22.01” W

June 14, 1980

Hudson’s Bay from Bunting Island, Nunavut

62° 48’ 57.72” N  92° 01’ 22.98” W

July 13, 1980

Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

62° 49’ 10.51” N  92° 06’ 20.80” W

July 19, 1980

N.W. of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

Unrecorded Coordinates

July 01, 1980

Meliadine River Valley, Nunavut

Unrecorded Coordinates

June 19, 1980

Cape Merry, Churchill, Manitoba

58° 47’ 11.82” N  94° 12’ 06.57” W

June 04, 2006.  10:20 am

Marble island, N.W.T.

62° 39’ 38.04” N  91° 07’ 38.59” W

July 26, 1980

NW of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

62° 50’ 49.43” N  92° 09’ 00.00” W

June 24, 1980