TautukKonik is a collaborative portrait of a time of change for Inuit in northern Labrador. Using repatriated photographs taken by Candace Cochrane between 1969 and 1986, we joined eleven co-authors from Nain and Hopedale (see right) to combine the images with Inuit memories in both Inuktitut and English. Together, we created a narrated portrait of time and place.

TautukKonik ikajuttigettautluni sanagiamut atjinguammik asiangusimatsiatumik taggami Labradorimi. Atutlutik katitsutauKatigettausimajunut atjinguannik Inuit inosimajaginnik tigujausimajut omunga Candace Cochrane akungani 1969 ammalu 1986, katingaKatigejut Nainimit ammalu Hopedale taijaujut “Nunatsiavut Sananguatillagialuit katingaKatigejut” ilaKalauttut taikkuninga Andrea Procter ammalu Candace Cochrane katitsuigiamut atjinguannik ilagillugit Inuit katitsutaugiaillasimajunut tamâgennik Inuktitut ammalu Kallunâtitut. Tamammik sanasimajok inigijausimajunik atjinguammik sitontiKajumik, iniKajumillu.

Nunatsiavut Co-Authors / nunatsiavut sananguatillaget katingakatigejut:

Peggy Andersen

Julius Dicker

Rutie Dicker 

Minnie Gear

Jade Holwell

Beverly Hunter 

Maria Merkuratsuk

Levi Noah Nochasak 

Sue Webb

Fran Williams

Katie Winters

Winner of the 2023 Peter Cashin Prize, Memorial University

“The black-and-white photos themselves are part portrait, part documentary, and each shows an interconnectedness between Inuit, land, water and non-human animal.”

– Erin Morton, Atlantic Books Today

All royalties from this book are donated to land-based programs for Nunatsiavut youth

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Miriam Brown, Nain (photo: Candace Cochrane)