Spitzberggen is a specific territory in Svalbard. There are no native tribes or population. This territory is the most closest land to North Pole in the world. It was settled by convicts peoples (sentenced to hard labor in charcoal mines), by whalers, trappers, sealers and so on so on...
This territory is a kind of fossil territory. It has severals traces through different times when humans migrated to this wild land: From 19th century, through the second world war when nazi were occupying this land, to the Cold war...
This photo serie is exploring these traces. without any description or comment.
Valéry Grancher 2007 - 2012