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Representations and Stereotypes

Laila Lunch Altinbas
25/10/2025
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Interview
In conversation with Inuuteq Storch
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The following piece is based on a conversation held on January 7, 2022, initiated by Moritz Neumüller, for The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice, published by Taylor & Francis later that same year. This interview, conducted by Laila Lund Altinbas with Inuuteq Storch, was devised to be complementary to Mette Sandbye’s historic perspective on the representation and self- representation of Greenlanders in another chapter of the Routledge publication. Neumüller’s introduction to the original contribution reads like this: “Laila, as an art historian from Greenland living in Denmark, has a broad horizon on how this image is constructed and which changes have taken place in the last few years, whereas Inuuteq, as an internationally recognised artist, brings in his personal experiences beyond the sometimes limiting discursive space of the old colonial relationship”...Read the full article in the printed issue. Get OVER Journal 4

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About
Laila Lunch Altinbas
Laila Lund Altinbas is an art historian and expert on Greenlandic art. Laila has conducted many of the art interviews with Greenlandic artists for NUKIGA. She is part of the team behind the Art Exhibition The Ocean/Havet/Imaq.
About
Inuuteq Storch
Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) lives and works in Greenland. He is a graduate of the International Centre of Photography in New York and the Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen. Inuuteq’s work is wide in genres (own photography and archive work and methods), but the content has a commonality in being about the identity of coming from Greenland. He has exhibited in Greenland, Denmark, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Canada and Colombia. Inuuteq published the photobooks Porcelain Souls (2018, Konnotation), Flesh (2019, Disko Bay), John Møller–Mirrored, Portraits of Good Hope (2021, Roulette Russe), Keepers of the Ocean (2022, Disko Bay).Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) lives and works in Greenland. He is a graduate of the International Centre of Photography in New York and the Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen. Inuuteq’s work is wide in genres (own photography and archive work and methods), but the content has a commonality in being about the identity of coming from Greenland. He has exhibited in Greenland, Denmark, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Canada and Colombia. Inuuteq published the photobooks Porcelain Souls (2018, Konnotation), Flesh (2019, Disko Bay), John Møller–Mirrored, Portraits of Good Hope (2021, Roulette Russe), Keepers of the Ocean (2022, Disko Bay).
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