• Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland
  • Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland

Ragnar Axelsson Arctic Heroes A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland

This title is distributed in the US by Consortium / Ingram.

Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the hunters’ 4,000-year old traditional way of life, the stark reality of global warming is an immediate and direct threat to their everyday survival. The Greenland sled dog, essential to Inuit settlement and survival, now faces extinction as hunters are forced to adapt to the vanishing world around them. In over 150 images, and through hunters’ personal stories, this book bears witness to the animals’ magnificence and the deep, integral role they play in the hunters’ lives. The subjects of Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson, also known as RAX (b. 1958), are people, animals, and landscape, but the focus of his work is the extraordinary relationships the people of the Arctic have developed with their extreme environment.

 

Cloth hardcover 25,2 x 34,8 cm 290 pages 137 tritone illustrations English Available ISBN 978-3-96900-007-6 Dezember 2020

Artist:

Ragnar Axelsson

Texts:

Ragnar Axelsson

Design:

Einar Geir Ingvarsson

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Awards

Shortlist Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2020

Exhibitions

Arctic Heroes
Leica Galerie Düsseldorf, Germany
10.11.2023 – 29.02.2024  

Where the World is Melting
PHOXXI. HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE TEMPORÄR, Hamburg
17.03. - 18.06.2023

Arctic Heroes – Where the world is melting
Leica Galerie Zingst, Germany
30.09. – 15.12.2022

Down North (Group Exhibition)
Portland Museum of Art, USA
18.02. – 05.06.2022

Where the World is Melting
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
30.01.– 09.05.2021

Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin
09.04. - 29.05.2021

Ragnar Axelsson. First Retrospective
Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich
15.12.2021 – 27.02 2022

Further venues to be confirmed.

Book Signings

Festival La Gacilly Photo, France
Artist Talk followed by a book signing
22.07.2021, 18:30

Reviews

The New Yorker, 28.12.2021

Edition with Print

Cover Axelsson
€360.00
incl. VAT

Ragnar Axelsson COLLECTOR´S EDITION: Arctic Heroes Motif 2: »Qaanaaq, Greenland« (2019)

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