One other Greenland. Most images from Greenland are exhibiting the character, icebergs, canine sledges and so forth. Seldom you see pictures of the habitants and their lifes. In 1972, Per Kirkeby and Aqqaluk Lynge as administrators, Peter Sakse as sound engineer and myself as cinematographer shot the documentary characteristic movie “When the Authorities Mentioned Cease”, in regards to the closure of an entire metropolis Qullissat, the place we comply with the Mathiesen household’s final time within the metropolis and the household’s journey to their new city, Pamiut in South Greenland. The movie is the primary Greenlandic movie and an essential doc in latest Greenlandic historical past.
The closure of Qullissat is among the darkish chapters in Greenland’s historical past, which the inhabitants has issue forgetting and forgiving. Town, which was as soon as one among Greenland’s largest cities, is situated on the northeast facet of the island of Qeqertarsuag. The city arose in 1924 when the Danish state determined to construct a coal mine that might provide Greenland with its personal coal. After the Second World Struggle it started to be thought-about unprofitable and in 1968 the Danish Parliament and Greenland’s Nationwide Council determined to shut down the mine. In 1972, the mine and thus the city was lastly closed, and the a part of the inhabitants that had not moved voluntarily was forcibly relocated to different Greenlandic cities. This largest compelled relocation of an city group in Greenland’s historical past passed off between 1970 and 1972 after a few years of preparations. Folks life, household life, employee life, hunter life and different human relationships have been pulled up by their roots, because of the closure of the coal mine may not hold the local people working. Household, pals and work colleagues have been separated as they have been compelled to maneuver to different cities and locations of residence. The depopulation of Qullissat is an occasion which on the time was thought-about by many to be inevitable. Nearly all of the native inhabitants didn’t settle for the closure however have been compelled to depart the town. Accepting the compelled eviction was a tough course of for a lot of the residents and lots of have by no means actually accepted the compelled flight.
On the similar time I shot lots of nonetheless images, which now have been printed in a ebook with textual content by Aqqaluk Lynge in each danish and greenlandic and an exhibition I’ve proven in 5 greenlandic cities and newest in The North Atlantic Home, cultural heart for Greenland, Iceland and The Faroe Islands in Copenhagen. My images are exhibiting day by day life because it was at the moment, which is uncommon. I used my Pentax Spotmatic with 3 Takumar lenses, 35, 50 and 85 mm and Tri-X movies developed in Promicrol. Just a few are shot on Kodachrome 64 and transformed to B/ W. Scannings are completed on my CanoScan FS-4000.
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