2015 / Book / Documentary

The last men

  • Photographer
    Camille Michel
  • Agency / Studio
    hans lucas

On a mysterious island lost north of Greenland, an isolated Inuit population finds itself torn between modernity and tradition, abandonment and resistance. The landscape is as beautiful as it is disturbing. The island is called Uummannaq... "The last men" is a poetic tale about disappearance.

Camille Michel is a french photographer who studied photography at the Arles National school of Photography. Her work addresses the relationships between human and the environment, and their respective impacts, for societies in close proxomity to nature.The influence of nature, sometimes hostile, on the way of life of men and the humain damage on the environment. What relationships do man and nature have in the 21st century ? What survives today of the traditional culture ? What is the impact of modern world ? She uses to document the daily life of populations and communities