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Peter Pitseolak, Photographer and artist 1902-1973- Biography
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Peter Pitseolak holding a camera with homemade filter, circa 1940-1960

Peter Pitseolak holding a camera with homemade filter, circa 1940-1960
Photo: Peter Pitseolak
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives
2000-186

Signature of Peter Pitseolak
Canadian Museum of Civilization
IV-C-4028


Capturing his legacy

Peter Pitseolak used his eyes and ears to preserve the memory of his people. An Inuit photographer, he saw the old ways passing away. Pitseolak also turned his creative energy to painting, sculpting and the collecting of oral history. His legacy is a body of work illustrating, from an Inuit perspective, northern life at the intersection of past and present.

quote Not all of our young people will learn the good ways, but the better ones,
the ones who care about themselves, will learn the new ways. . . . For myself,
I am sad that the Eskimo way has gone. quote

Peter Pitseolak, circa 1973

Signature of Pitseolak

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