Seal is one of the most important species for the Inuit.
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq walks on sea ice checking for seal breathing holes along the cracks in sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq drives a snowmobile on sea ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
An Inuit hunter peers into a hole in the ice to check his fishing nets. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq walks on sea ice checking for seal breathing holes along the cracks in sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters set up fishing nets under the ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter Joelie Sanguya examines seal nets under the ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters take a short break. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
An Inuit hunter stands watch over a seal breathing hole in the sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
An Inuit hunter stands crouching over a seal breathing hole, waiting for a seal to come up. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq drives his snowmobile over an ice ridge created by the moving plates of sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters set up seal nets under the ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters set up seal nets under the ice near the community of Clyde River in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. (Levon Sevunts / Radio Canada International)
Inuit hunters cut a hole in the sea ice to set up nets to catch fish and seals. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters set up seal nets under the ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters prepare to set up a seal net in a crack between two sea ice plates. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
An Inuit hunter uses the shaft of his harpoon to punch a hole in the ice to check his underwater fishing nets. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit setting up seal nets on Baffin Island in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.
(Levon Sevunts / Radio Canada International)
An Inuit hunter uses a snow shovel to scoop up slush from a hole in the ice to check his underwater fishing nets. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq walks on sea ice checking for seal breathing holes along the cracks in sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
An Inuit hunter peers into a hole in the ice to check his fishing nets. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Elijah Pallituq demonstrates how Inuit hunters use harpoons to hunt seals under sea ice. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunters on the outskirts of Iqaluit, Nunavut, prepare to leave for the seal hunt in the Frobisher Bay. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit hunter Elijah Palituk looks for seal breathing holes in the ice off the coast of north-east Baffin Island. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
The tip of a harpoon used by Inuit hunters for seal hunting. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
A young Inuit hunter looks into a seal breathing hole in the sea ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. (Levon Sevunts)
A young Inuit hunter examines a seal breathing hole in the sea ice near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Inuit musher and hunter Joelie Sanguya cuts up a frozen seal carcass to feed his sled dogs near Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo by Levon Sevunts
Inuit hunter and guide Elijah Pallituq demonstrates a harpoon used for seal hunting in emergency situations. Photo by Levon Sevunts.
Born and raised in Armenia, Levon started his journalistic career in 1990, covering wars and civil strife in the Caucasus and Central Asia. In 1992, after the government in Armenia shut down the TV program he was working for, Levon immigrated to Canada. He learned English and eventually went back to journalism, working first in print and then in broadcasting. Levon’s journalistic assignments have taken him from the High Arctic to Sahara and the killing fields of Darfur, from the streets of Montreal to the snow-capped mountaintops of Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. He says, “But best of all, I’ve been privileged to tell the stories of hundreds of people who’ve generously opened up their homes, refugee tents and their hearts to me.”
