Will Richard Photography

A website dedicated to recording life in the North

In 2006, Will was notified that he had been granted a three-year appointment by the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center as Research Collaborator.

Will has worked for six summers in the field with the Arctic Studies Center on Quebec's Lower North Shore on a Basque archaeological excavation.

His work has appeared in publications of the Arctic Studies Center and in the 'Greenland Culture Festival' in 2005 at the US National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

Aerial view of Nuuk (which sounds like "nuke") is the capital of Greenland. The city is sometimes difficult to reach because of fog which can dominate the mountains and fjords that constitute the geography of Nuuk."Nuuk" means "promontory" which above photo demonstrates. Located at North 64 degrees 10.581 minutes; West 051 degrees 43.857 minutes, Nuuk has a mild climate. Because of its relative ice-free condition and patches of flat terrain, the Nuuk region constituted the "Western Settlements" of the Vikings for about the first four centuries of the last millennium.

Polar Bear

In 2007 while working with Polar Sea Adventures, we came across three Polar Bears that were feeding on seal. They proved to be more interested in eating than in us. So, I took advantage of this opportunity.
Location North 72 degrees 44.058 minutes; West 075 degrees 57.102 minutes or about a dozen miles off northeastern tip of Baffin Island on the ice of Baffin Bay.