In 1988, at 30, the Indigenous artist Pia Arke built her own camera from pine and plywood, then used it to photograph landscapes in Greenland, where she was born. Her father was Danish and her mother Greenlandic. Growing up in the Southern town of Qaqortoq, Arke attended the Danish school, so she never learned to speak her mother’s language. Her oeuvre—which included painting, drawing, photography, and collage—evolved to reflect on Denmark’s repressive colonization of Greenlandic Inuits. Arke died of cancer in 2007, when she was just 48. Her work has seldom been exhibited outside of Scandinavia. —Elena Clavarino