This photograph happened while I was working on a story on Indigenous conservation in North Greenland. Qillaq Kristiansen is a narwhal hunter, one of the best in the community. To manage the narwhal population in a community that also subsists on them, he practices both cultural and ecological conservation by using the traditional methods of hunting by kayak and hand-thrown harpoons. I was out on the sea ice with Qillaq on the two days all spring when the sea ice conditions were favorable f...
