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Lukas Kreibig

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Lukas Kreibig

Heart of a Seal

Once I saw the first glimpses of the mountain that Uummannaq, Greenland, an island town off the country’s western coast,
centers around, I was instantly drawn to the beauty and rawness of this remote place. The Arctic island has in the past
50 years quickly developed itself and is going from a traditional community of fishermen and hunters to a modern society.
I wanted to understand how life feels like in a community with such a harsh climate and long traditions.

For countless generations, the Inuit who reside here have relied on their natural surroundings to survive. I witnessed the warmest winter on record in the Arctic, unfortunately, the effects from global warming on this coastal town
were apparent, with instances like the sea ice melting too early.

Lukas Kreibig

Lukas Kreibig (1987) was born in Southern Germany and studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Hanover. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, National Geographic and Stern, among other publications. In 2017, Kreibig completed the International Photojournalism program at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark, and decided to narrow his focus to primarily long-term stories, in an effort to dig deeper than normal stories do.