Unit9. Perfect Fools. *play. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners : Work. The Whale Hunt / by Jonathan Harris / Statement. Harpoon station at sunset in whaling camp The Whale Hunt is an experiment in human storytelling. In May 2007, I spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States. The first several days were spent in the village of Barrow, exploring ramshackle structures, buying gear, and otherwise helping the whaling crew to prepare for the hunt. We then traveled by snowmobile out onto the frozen Arctic Ocean, where we camped three miles from shore on thick pack ice, pitching our tents about ten feet from the open water. Howard readies a harpoon A thousand-year-old tradition, the Inupiat whale hunt provides the community’s annual food supply, currently limited by international law to 22 whales a year.
Simeon stands at the snow fence I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. M&C Saatchi. Home. Dare ~ ideas that work. POKE. The:viral:factory - a digital marketing and media company. Tribal DDB Worldwide. Plan.Net – Best in Digital Life.