The Inuit called him “Adderiorli” – the man with a box—on. Richard Harrington traveled more than 3,500 miles on six separate dog-sled journeys from 1948-1953, documenting the Inuit way of life in the Canadian Arctic.
It was on Richard Harrington's fourth trip to the Arctic that he traveled to Padlei, a remote settlement about 200 kilometres north-west of Arviat. There Harrington encountered the Padleimiut during a time of starvation when the caribou, their primary source of food, had not followed their usual migratory path. The negatives of the photographs taken at that time, along with Harrington’s diaries, are in the National Archives of Canada.
Richard Harrington lived in Toronto for more than seventy years. Harrington traveled in more than 120 countries and his work has appeared in Life, Look, National Geographic, Paris Match, Der Stern, and Parade Magazine.
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