Jette Bang:
When the photographer Jette Bang (1914 – 1964) travelled to Greenland for the first time in 1936, she had just finished her training as a photographer at Jonals Co., a big and successful advertising studio/photo company in Copenhagen. At that time, Greenland had been under colonisation and monopolised since 1721. Meaning that nobody could enter the land without permission by Grønlands Styrelse. The limited flow of information and pictures, as well as the geographic position of the colony, made Greenland and the Greenlanders stand out in a glow of adventure and mystery. Jette Bang was fascinated by the “primitive” Greenlanders, their closeness to nature and the way they lived their lives. Primarily this was what she wanted to photograph and show to the outside world. Besides this Jette Bang introduced modern photography to the ethnographic figurative language and her pictures remain relevant to people today.

She travelled to Greenland in the years: 1936, 1937, 1938 – 1939, 1945, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963.