num_pages: 163
description: Inughuit on valokuvateos maailman pohjoisimmasta kansasta, Pohjois-Grönlannissa asuvista polaarieskimoista. Vielä 200 vuotta sitten he luulivat olevansa ainoat ihmiset maan päällä. Tuhannen eskimon heimo elää edelleen eristettyä elämää tärkeimpinä yhteyksinä muuhun maailmaan helikopterilennot ja televisio. Tiina Itkonen voitti herkillä Ultima Thulen eskimokuvillaan Libris -palkinnon. Palkituista kuvista painettiin valokuvakirja Inughuit. Kirjassa on 105 nelivärikuvaa Pohjois-Grönlannin ihmisistä ja maisemista. Kirjan vaativa painotyö edustaa kansainvälistä huippuosaamista. Kirjan tekstit ovat ranskalaisen antropologian professori Jean Malaurien, suomalaisen eskimologi Eva Janssonin ja valokuvaaja Tiina Itkosen käsialaa. Tekstit ovat suomeksi ja englanniksi.- - -On discovering the very beautiful images brought to us by photographer Tiina Itkonen, an extremely gifted and sensitive Finnish photographer, whose artistic talent has touched me deeply, I cannot help feeling a profound nostalgia. Certainly, these Inughuit faces, who seem like brothers of my everyday companions, so present in my memories since my solitary winter spent in Siorapaluk, in the years 1951-52, evoke for me moments some of which have without doubt been the most precious, even the most religious moments of my life. At that time the Inughuit numbered 302, divided among 70 families, from Etah in the north to Savissivik in the south. They allowed me through their active lives and legends to share in a pantheism that is in harmony with forces of the universe. Gradually and in their own subtle ways, they helped me to grasp the unity of man with his environment in a grand pantheistic vision. The Inughuit, at least certain of them, have a hypersensitivity - that extraordinary power that we have lost of seeing the imaginary in matter. Tiina Itkonen took these photographs in Northern Greenland in 1995, 1998 and 2002. The pictures show cheerful faces, full of life and a determination to be happy, but I believe I see in them a kind of inner melancholy that Itkonen has captured with great sensitivity and sympathy. - Jean Malaurie
title: Inughuit
publisher: Libris