09/04/2023
~~ Inuit life, 1949: Helen Konek is pictured walking into her igloo in Arviat, Nunavut, on the western shores of Hudson Bay, Canada.
John Christensen's comment :
Helen Konek enters her igloo, walking down the steps carved from ice. The 17-year-old stares ahead into the camera. She's framed by the entrance, the Arctic sun shines through the opening in the door.
That moment — frozen in time in February 1949 near Arviat, Nunavut — is spreading across the internet after her grandson, CBC's Jordan Konek, posted it on Twitter. It took just a few days for it to be shared thousands of times by people around the world.
Helen is 87 now and lives in the elders' care home in Arviat. But she still remembers the photographer and his project two generations ago.
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