Voices from The Cold


  • Photographer
    Lars Just
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    May 2015

The melt water runs twenty-five miles through the mountains from the Ice Sheet of Greenland before it reaches the beautiful valley of Kangerlussuaq. Here lies Orpigaq. An orphanage for young Greenlanders, who have nothing good in common, that is if you ask them. All through life they have been let down by the people who were supposed to protect them. Caught in patterns of crime, drugs, self-harm, violence and sexual abuse, they are young people our society has failed. And for them the orphanage is the last hope, and the last stop before jail. In the following portrait series you’ll meet Louis, Kristian, Nuunu, Suulut, Inuuteq and Aima. Each of them are presented with their own portrait and asked what they think, when they look at themselves. The project was distributed to politicians and decision makers in the Danish and Greenlandic administration, to bring into light the conditions of vulnerable children in Greenland.

Story

Please refer to the handwritten words of the childrens.

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