Eric Baccega / Portrait of young female Inuit guide, Nunavut, Canada, August 2010. Model released

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunters trying to stop lead opening using their harpoons. Northwest Greenland, 1977.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter preparing to winch Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) onto ice floe. Northwest Greenland, 1989.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit home with dead Arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) hanging outside to keep them cold. Moriussaq, Northwest Greenland.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter jumping from one ice floe to another. Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, 1994.

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq / Inuit man hold his hand under the midnight sun in the Chukchi Sea, off shore from the arctic village of Barrow, Alaska, USA. April 2009

Steven Kazlowski / Sun setting as a blizzard freezes the landscape outside the Inupiaq village of Kaktovik, Barter Island, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, October 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence hunter dragging Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) catch on the pack ice near Point Hope, Alaska, Chukchi Sea, March 2008

Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Young Inupiaq woman with Sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys nelma) caught through a hole in pack ice over the Chukchi Sea, for the village elders of Kotzebue, Alaska, March 2008

Steven Kazlowski / Rifles used by Inupiaq for hunting whales, seals and birds, hidden behind a snow blind on the pack ice, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, May 2008

Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008