Photo project
LIFE AT THE EDGE
The people of Scoresbysund truly live their lives at the edge. The town comprises the outer limits of human habitation in the sparsely populated regions of north-eastern Greenland. The nearest inhabited area lies 800 kilometres to the south, and north of Scoresbysund is the world’s largest national park. The people of the isolated Scoresbysund also live perilously close to the edge of a subsistence minimum. Supplies from the rest of the world are scanty and hunt is more important here than elsewhere in Greenland. The people of Scoresbysund live at the edge in yet another, quite literal sense: the ice edge. At the mouth of the world’s largest fiord, Scoresby Sund, the ice edge is present six months per year. This transition zone between the solid ice and open waters is of enormous biological significance and constitutes the basis for the area’s wildlife.
LIFE AT THE EDGE was published as book in 2012 and the photo exhibition traveled in Denmark and Greenland between 2013 and 2016.
Iceberg caught in the sea ice in Scoresbysund Fjord. © Carsten Egevang
The ice edge is a biological hotshot and where the animals are found. © Carsten Egevang
One seal - fout hunters and ten shots. But the seal made it alive. © Carsten Egevang
A male polar bear has been shot close to the town of Scoresbysund. © Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
A ringed seal has just been butchered and the dogs fed. © Carsten Egevang
Small huts can be used as stopovers on long travels for hunting. © Carsten Egevang
In May and June ringed seals come out of the water to rest on top of the sea ice. This means the start of an exciting form of hunting where the hunter sneaks up on the seal all dressed In white. © Carsten Egevang
Common eider (Somateria mollissima) hunting in the spring. © Carsten Egevang
Mobile phone and dog sled meets at the sea ice. © Carsten Egevang
Dog sleding off Scoresbysund. © Carsten Egevang
A hunter is carrying a seal out side the settlement Kap Tobin, Scoresbysund. © Carsten Egevang
Tracks from dog sleds, snow mobiles and ATVs outside Scoresbysund. © Carsten Egevang
Guns are keept outside the tents throughout the night. © Carsten Egevang
Ringed seals are skinned after a hunt in Scoresbusund. © Carsten Egevang
In Spring Barbacle geese (Branta leucopsis) migrate through the Scoresbysund area. © Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
Snow storm during dog sleding. © Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
Close to Kap Tobin there is a small hot spring with temperature of 61,5 degrees C. © Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang
© Carsten Egevang