Explore Our Photography

Naujaat residents decked themselves out in clothing made from polar bear, seal, caribou and fox Dec. 21 to participate in their co-op store’s annual traditional clothing contest. (Photo courtesy of the Naujaat Co-op)

Children in Kuujjuaq play hockey at an outdoor rink in the middle of town on Dec. 9. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

The northern lights dance around a Christmas tree in Iqaluit’s Tundra Ridge neighbourhood in the week leading up to Christmas. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

Kuujjuaq residents gather in front of the northern village office for the lighting of Christmas trees on Dec. 21. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada produced this holiday card with the help of Inuk photographer Kristian Binder, who took the image with a drone to respect social distancing. It’s of Tanya Gruben of Inuvik, who is seen lying on an ice road. (Image courtesy of Pauktuutit)

Santa Claus and his helpers distribute candies and other presents — such as hats, gloves and mitts — during a tour around Kuujjuaq on a municipal flat bed truck dubbed Rudolph on Sunday, Dec. 20. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

Santa Claus, his helpers and the Grinch paid a visit to Kuujjuaq on Sunday, Dec. 20. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

The Kitikmeot Inuit Association is distributing packages of meat to about 1,600 Inuit households in western Nunavut over the next four months. The first packages, distributed over the weekend, include hamburgers, seasoned chicken, ground beef, breakfast sausages, prime rib steaks, sirloin steaks, Swiss steaks, beef strips, chicken drumsticks and thighs, pork chops and pork side ribs. The program is funded with $5.8 million from the federal government to alleviate hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Richard Webster)

After being delayed by a territory-wide lockdown earlier in the month and snowed out on Saturday, Dec. 20, St. Nick finally made his way through the streets of Iqaluit for the city’s annual Santa Claus parade on Sunday. (Photo by Dustin Patar)

A Canadian North flight takes off from Kuujjuaq late in the afternoon of Dec. 16. (Photo by Allen Gordon)

Oolai Qaunirq retreives ptarmigan, or aqiggiq, he caught along Kuujjuaq’s Ippialuk Road on Sunday morning, Dec. 13. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Selena Whiteley holds two fish she pulled out from her fishing hole at False River, outside of Kuujjuaq, during the weekend of Dec. 5. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Saimmajualy Ekomiak fishes through a hole in the ice he made at False River, outside of Kuujjuaq, during the weekend of Dec. 5. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

Victoria Grey looks out the window of a helicopter while anticipating her arrival at her fishing cabin at False River, outside of Kuujjuaq, during the weekend of Dec. 5. (Photo by Malaya Qaunirq Chapman)

From left: Viola Haqpi and Holly Kayuryuk with the Abluqta Society in Baker Lake try on face masks that sport patterns from Inuit culture on Dec. 7. A box of 200 of the masks, made by Tanya Innaarulik, were donated by Transformative Life Skills Nunavik. The Abluqta Society plans to give them away in January, once the current supply of masks in the community becomes less available. (Image courtesy of the Abluqta Society)

A new bridge was installed across the river near Inukjuak on Dec. 5, as part of work on 7.5-megawatt run-of-the-river hydro project that’s expected to be complete by late 2022. The bridge will connect to an access road on the far side of the river. The power project is expected to provide nearly all the electricity required for the nearby community of 1,800, which currently relies on diesel. (Photo by Sylvain Paradis)

Ikey Evalik, TMAC Resources Inc.’s Inuit impact benefit agreement coordinator, helps prepare 1,500 pairs of socks to be distributed to Kitikmeot students through the region’s elementary schools ahead of Christmas. He’s seen here on Dec. 1 at TMAC’s office in Cambridge Bay. The company says that, with its Nunavut operations slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the socks were purchased with funds usually dedicated to site Christmas activities. (Photo courtesy of TMAC)

Ice on the Koksoak River near Kuujjuaq glistens during sunrise around 8 a.m. on Nov. 21. (Photo by Maxence Chavanne)

Isabelle Dubois of Kuujjuaq captured this image of a nearly full moon on the horizon on Dec. 1. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois)

“Qisuktuq – sea ice is forming,” writes Maggie Kuniliusie of Iqaluit, who took this photo of the bay freezing up on Nov. 29 as the sun set at 1:30 p.m. (Photo by Maggie Kuniliusie)

Students from Tarsakallak school in Aupaluk pose in front of a new mural they recently helped create in the Nunavik school’s gymnasium. Aupaluk won a region-wide fire prevention contest put on by the Kativik Municipal Housing Bureau’s Pivallianiq program earlier this year. Their winning prize was a mural event run by a professional muralist, in which students painted imagery from the Inuit legend Kautjajuk. (Photo courtesy of Pivallianiq)