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Every year, Amundsen Science manage science expeditions to the Arctic through deployment of the science icebreaker, CCGS Amundsen, in collaboration with the Canadian Coast Guard. This photo essay explores the spectacular beauty of the Arctic and features the scientific research, landscapes and wildlife that I bear witness on these expeditions. The Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has been a major catalyst in revitalizing Canadian Arctic science by providing Canadian researchers and their international collaborators with research infrastructure and scientific equipment that gives them unprecedented access to the Arctic Ocean and its ancillary seas.

During my explorations of the Arctic for the Northern Edge project, the sea, the ice floes, the icebergs, the tundra and the mountains have flashed before my eyes. The Inuit have lived in connection with this land for thousands of years. To document and share a story based on the land and its people, I cannot but record images of this land and share its raw yet extraordinary magnificence. This world is set to change drastically over the next few decades. I want to inspire in sharing the beauty of these remote but fragile places that are showing significant effects of climate change. Marc-André Pauzé

The Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has been a major catalyst in revitalizing Canadian Arctic science by providing Canadian researchers and their international collaborators with research infrastructure and scientific equipment that gives them unprecedented access to the Arctic Ocean and its ancillary seas. This serie of pictures is the result of a collaboration between scientist and drone pilot David Coté and M-A Pauzé, photographer. As such, photo must be credited to both as following: Photo © D. Coté/M-A Pauzé

"I am Inuk and I know that my heart is free to go where all animals are free". ( Simionie Kunner ) . For this long-term photographic essay, I lived four years in the villages around the Ungava Bay to document the issues that the Inuit encounter as well as traditional life or just bring back images of the daily life of the Inuit. It allowed me to get inside, meet people, observe life and it gave me the time to document, analyze and try to understand as much as possible this myriad of complex issues. It took a while, and I spent long hours, days and weeks waiting. I could have chosen to get in touch with the official leaders and they might have arranged for me to visit. But it would have given nothing more than a simplistic and superficial look. I preferred to take my time and observe, talking to one here and another there, to find my way as it reveals itself before me. Marc-André Pauzé