
What If You Were My Sabine?
- Publisher
- Jap Sam Books
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9789493329805
- Specifications
- Hardcover
144 pages
17 x 22 cm
English and Greenlandic
Editor: Louise Bjeldbak Henriksen
Partners: Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Bonnefanten Maastricht
Explores the cultural, social, and historical potential of the medium through the lens of a homeland, offering a rarely seen insider perspective on Arctic environments and portraying everyday life with images that are both raw and poetic. The practice merges the traditional with the contemporary, weaving personal narratives together with broader reflections on history, identity, and daily existence. With an intuitive working approach and without staging scenes, viewers are granted access to a homeland seen from within: compelling portraits, depictions of daily life, and sweeping landscapes map what it means to live at the intersection of ancestral tradition, colonial heritage, the climate crisis, and the pressures of globalization. Analogue methods are often used, with cameras given by friends and family, combining personal images with found material and archives; sequencing and pauses unfold the narratives, structured like a book in seven chapters.