Elena Perlino
Elena Perlino created Indian Time during several trips to the border
between Quebec and Labrador, in the Innu and Naskapi communities between Natashquan, Mani-Utenam, Matimékush-LacJohn, Kawawachikamach, and Sheshatshiu.
Through the photographer’s lens, readers are invited to travel through breathtaking landscapes and experience the daily lives of the inhabitants of these regions, which have been so profoundly marked by Quebec’s contemporary history. She shared this other time.
“Indian Time is a very common expression in Innu communities. It means, ‘Slow down, there’s no need to rush, relax…’ ‘White people eat according to their watches, Indians eat according to their hunger,’ said an elder from La Romaine in the 1950s. Knowing how to wait for the right moment is essential…” (Lucien McKenzie)
Indian Time, 17 x 22 cm, 176 pages, approximately 100 color reproductions, paperback binding
ISBN: 978-2-84314-072-3
Co-published by Editions Escuminac
