Clayoquot Sound, Canada: First Nations (35 images)

The novelist Victor Hugo wrote that, "anywhere one can dream is good, provided the place is obscure, and the horizon is vast". The west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, is such a place. To do justice to this mythic landscape is near impossible, but few writers and artists who visited would be able to resist an attempt. Clayoquot Sound is a rugged paradise, home to the Nuu-chah-nulth people, a political alliance of First Nations related through blood, culture, and language. Life's...
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The novelist Victor Hugo wrote that, "anywhere one can dream is good, provided the place is obscure, and the horizon is vast". The west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, is such a place. To do justice to this mythic landscape is near impossible, but few writers and artists who visited would be able to resist an attempt. Clayoquot Sound is a rugged paradise, home to the Nuu-chah-nulth people, a political alliance of First Nations related through blood, culture, and language. Life's beauty and violence, struggle and celebration, is played out in these coastal villages, far removed from the gleeful tourism brochures of the Pacific Northwest. (Credit Text: © Martyn Aim) [For a full article to accompany photographs from this series please contact Martyn: mail@martynaim.com]
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