Peter Pitseolak, artist and pioneer photographer of Baffin Island, recorded the legends and
history of his people, the Seekooseelakmiut. He left behind an invaluable body of
photographs that spans the period from the early 1940s to his death in 1973. These
images document the enormous changes that his people experienced as they moved from
a nomadic hunting life to that of a settled community.
Peter Pitseolak, artist and pioneer photographer of Baffin Island, recorded the legends and
history of his people, the Seekooseelakmiut. He left behind an invaluable body of
photographs that spans the period from the early 1940s to his death in 1973. These
images document the enormous changes that his people experienced as they moved from
a nomadic hunting life to that of a settled community.