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Air Greenland inflight magazine 07
Identity
■ Can you adjust to global
trends, foreign ideals and
still keep your soul? If you
can’t, what are you?
These are 49-year old
Bodil Mette Louise Amalie
Fontain’s questions. She is
the creator of the photo
exhibition »Inussuit – tassaapput
ilaajuartut«, which
is all about identity and
belonging on the one hand
– and acknowledgment and
reconciliation on the other
hand.
Louise Fontain has worked
with photography both as a
teacher and an artist for
many years. The theme of
this photo exhibition is her
lifeblood. She was born in
Sisimiut and when she was
nine she was sent to Danish
foster parents to spend a
year in a Danish school.
Later she lived in Denmark
for 15 years and then in
Norway for 24 years where
she now lives together with
her Norwegian husband and
the couple’s five children.
Together they run an organic
farm in Skarmodalen outside
Hattfjelldal in Nordland with
sheep, handicrafts and ecotourism
– a lifestyle that
makes demands on maintaining
and nurturing one’s
originality. This is one of the
reasons why she always
brings her camera when she
visits Greenland.
– Some time passes between
each visit, so it’s easier to
document the changes, says
Louise Fontain.
The exhibition opened in
2006, the year of Sisimiut’s
250th anniversary and it will
visit 10 towns in Greenland
in the years to come. Work
is in progress to send the
exhibition on tour to the
other Nordic countries.