Features Dec 25, 2025 – 10:30 am EST

Images of 2025: Photographers document the year in pictures

Captured moments range from concerts and crafts to a tragic fire in Iqaluit

Rosie Callahan opens the third night of Aqpik Jam in November at the Kuujjuaq Forum. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

By Nunatsiaq News

There was plenty of news to cover in 2025 — some of it tragic, some joyous and some that documented the day-to-day happenings in Canada’s Arctic.

Nunatsiaq News staff, and some photographers who freelanced for us, captured these images as they made news throughout the year. The photos alone can tell the story of the year, as we prepare to put away the 2025 calendar and open a new one.

Have a look through some of the important images our photographers captured over the past year.

A fire tears through the Noble House apartment building in Iqaluit on Jan. 28, forcing residents to take shelter at a city-run warming centre set up at the nearby cadet hall. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)
Goalie Robbie Nowdlak dives to block a kick from Wenzell Djalogue during a Wednesday night post-practice scrimmage at École des Trois-Soleils in Iqaluit in January. The three other players are Wassi Rahman, left, James Aariak-Shirley, and Gabe Salomonie. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Former Nunavut premier P.J. Akeeagok, far right, and former northern affairs minister Gary Anandasangaree, far left, pose for photographers, following takeoff on board a Kenn Borek Air plane in February. They were flying over the Kuugaaluk River to see the site chosen as a potential location for a future hydroelectric plant to service Iqaluit. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Nunavut Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell discusses her new role in the Upper Chamber with a Nunatsiaq News reporter in an interview in Ottawa on Feb. 26. (Photo by Corey Larocque)
Zazu the toucan, played by Rylan Esteban, left, and Rafiki the mandrill, played by Iris Lessard-Michielsen, show off the colourful makeup designed by a team of fellow students. (Photo by Daron Letts)
QFC team players celebrate after winning the A-division final against Grinding Brewins in April at the Arctic Winter Games Arena in Iqaluit. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
King Charles and Queen Camilla, seated at the rear of the carriage, with Gov. Gen Mary Simon and her husband Whit Fraser, visit Ottawa earlier this year.(Photo by Jorge Antunes)
A drone photo shows Nunavut Quest musher Tom Naqitarvik and his dog team on the third day for the annual dogsled race, which ran from Pond Inlet to Igloolik. (Photo by Alex-Ootoowak, special to Nunatsiaq News)
Elisapi Aningmiuq, left, and Janey Chang display some of the 200 fish skins tanned and dyed during a two-week workshop in May at Abe Okpik Hall in Apex. Chang, a Vancouver-based artist and educator, led the workshop, organized by the Department of Community Services. Aningmiuq and 10 other participants took part in the tanning process, using bowhead whale oil, oyster shells and other natural materials. Some participants used the fish leather to create wallets and earrings. (Photo by Daron Letts)
MLAs toss their papers from their desks Sept. 18 in celebration of the end of the final sitting of the legislative assembly before the Oct. 27 election. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Volunteer firefighter Kristen Haven shows how to use a fire extinguisher in October in front of Abe Okpik Hall in Apex. It was the last of five demonstrations the Iqaluit fire department organized for fire prevention week, which ran from Oct. 5 to 11. The goal is to make people more "confident," when using fire extinguishers, said deputy fire Chief Alex Storring. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Community organizers Mary Mesher and Annie Kumarluk lead a march in Kuujjuaq in November calling for justice and an end to police brutality. Marches were also held in Salluit and Inukjuak. Nov. 4 was the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of a man in Salluit by police. Three other police-involved fatalities have occurred in Nunavik since then. (File photo by Dominique Gené)
John Main speaks to reporters in November after he was chosen to be Nunavut premier during the leadership forum. In Nunavut's consensus government, the first order of business for MLAs is to pick their Speaker, premier and cabinet ministers. (Photo by Daron Letts)
Alaska's Quinn Christopherson performs at Pan-Arctic Vision, held in November in Iqaluit. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Larry Audlaluk rides his snowmobile to Grise Fiord after a trip on the land. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Andrew Blackadar, standing on the podium, salutes a flag party at the change of command ceremony for Chief Supt. Kent Pike on Dec. 10. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

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Images of 2025: Photographers document the year in pictures

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