Hans Blohm

Who is Hans Blohm?

Hans-Ludwig Blohm, C.M. is a photographer and author. Over three decades, he has criss-crossed the Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska, capturing images and stories of the Inuit. He has driven 16 times from his home in Ottawa to different parts of the North logging from 20 500 to 25 000 km each trip. He has driven the Mackenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea at three occasions and has explored by sailboat the remote, uninhabited fjords of Labrador.

Blohm's landscapes and portraits have appeared in many books and magazines, while twenty-three of his photographs have appeared on Canadian postage stamps. His solo photo exhibitions have travelled on four continents while his 17 books, ranging from coffee-table pictorials to a collection of essays from Northerners, have sold worldwide.

Blohm has also left his mark in the world of architecture, portrait and microchip photography.