Allanngorpoq

• Prize
• Photographer
  Sebastien Tixier, France, Metropolitan
• Studio
  none / independant
• Website
  http://www.sebtix.com

In early 2013, I went into a one-month stay in Greenland, sharing life with some of its
inhabitants, up to the northernmost settlements. A trip from 67 to 77 parallel on the way
up to Qaanaaq, after a year and a half of preparation with the aim to highlight the
current mutations.

The country undergoes, from the very first place, the effects of climate changes, and
witnesses deep transformation of the society since the latest decades: the modification of
the environment thus operates along with a growing openness to "occidental" lifestyles and
consumption habits. The questions that are raised today in Greenland go far beyond its
boundaries.

In incredibly diverse landscapes, supermarkets and mobile phones come into Inuit culture,
and skin-made traditional outfits are no longer used but at the very north for dogsledge
trips. These strong and fast changes question society and identity, and divide the
country"s opinion as seen in the last elections: between the will to follow what seems to
be the rail of History, and the feeling to be the people of the ice, melting away all the
same.

Allanngorpoq can be translated into "being transformed" from Greenlandic.




Medium format photographs - 2013

Born in France in 1980, I have been interested in art photography for long.
My first works and exhibitions focus on abandoned places for their graphical and organic interest. More recently I tend to develop some more personal researches, with more conceptual and staging photographies.