'The Children's Home' is a multimedia project documenting an abandoned orphanage and boarding school in Southwest Alaska through the words and images of people who lived there.
Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original place on which the home was built, it means "great, little land".
This project was funded by the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Abandoned bag of DDT in the Superintendent's house, 2011
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Yup'ik Elder, Edith Ashepak, 2013
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Abandoned desk, 2014
The Children's Home 'The Children's Home' is a multimedia project documenting an abandoned orphanage and boarding school in Southwest Alaska through the words and images of people who lived there. Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original pl...
The Children's Home
'The Children's Home' is a multimedia project documenting an abandoned orphanage and boarding school in Southwest Alaska through the words and images of people who lived there.
Nunapitsinghak is the Yup'ik name of the original place on which the home was built, it means "great, little land".
This project was funded by the Alaska Humanities Forum.