Slovenia-born freelance photographer Ciril Jazbec, who previously took these eye-opening photographs of a hunter in Greenland, has shot beautiful photographs of an icy outdoor theater in the country.
Titled ‘Cinema On Ice’, they were taken in Uummannaq, which has a population of about 1,200 people, and is the eleventh-largest town in Greenland.
Jazbec was there to work on ‘On Thin Ice’, a project documenting climate change when he came across Children’s Home Uummanaq.
While talking to the director, he learnt that the facility helps youngsters by involving them in fishing and hunting, local traditions that are being affected by climate change and globalization.
It organized an outdoor movie session one night where a local film called Inuk was projected onto an iceberg. Starring “non-professional Inuit actors”, it was especially relevant due to its story about a young boy sent by his guardian to learn wisdom from a bear hunter.
It was this incident that made his “hairs stand on end”, said Jazbec in an interview with PROOF.
The photographer discreetly took pictures of the audience as they watched the film, capturing the faces illuminated by the projection.
The scene of the children transfixed by the film touched and inspired him, as it reflected a bigger picture of a fast-changing modern-day Greenland where young people leave small towns for opportunities in cities.
“I’m not interested in merely taking pretty pictures of communities undergoing momentous changes, I’m looking to create a long-term life’s work that stands as a document of a time and a people who lived in this time, reminding us of how things used to be and cautioning us that our planet is delicate and fragile.”
View his photographs below.
[via Trend Hunter and PROOF, images via Ciril Jazbec]