Sometimes I cannot smile book

SOMETIMES I CANNOT SMILE

Greenland has the highest suicide rate among young people. Almost twenty percent of them attempt to end their lives every year. Two percent succeed.

It’s a far journey to greenland. Up there our conception of life and death shakes, priorities are inverted, elements shuffled. A fatalist, dichotomous approach to life. Black or white, without shades in between, raw and cruel.

It’s about surviving, often psychological.

A delicate exploration of the subtle and intimate war many young people fight against violence, boredom and emptiness, a struggle that has always been the “raison d’etre” of young generations, the difference being that in east greenland many of them lose that battle.

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Awards

  • The Washington Post – best book 2013
  • Ed Templeton’s pick – best book 2013
  • Shortlisted Kassel Photobook Award 2014

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