Yann Datessen Among the Innu

From 2022 to 2025, French photographer Yann Datessen traveled to seven of the eleven Innu Nation communities in Quebec and Labrador. The result is on view in Strasbourg, France until April 25, 2026, before traveling to the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City and the cultural centers of the Innu communities themselves.

One word first, before the images. Nitassinan. In the Innu language, it means “our land.” Three syllables to name a territory stretching from the banks of the St. Lawrence River to the boreal edges of eastern Canada, inhabited for more than 10,000 ye...

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