Inuit artist Helen Konek was 17 years old when she was photographed walking into her family’s igloo in 1949, just outside what was then known as Eskimo Point (now Arviat, Nunavut).

Richard Harrington, a freelance photographer who had an interest in the North, took the photos of Helen while travelling in the Arctic that year.

His work was purchased by Canada's National Archives, the Smithsonian and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Helen died July 25 at the age of 95, but is forever immortalized in Harrington's images.

"I'm glad the image went viral, because even up to today, Canadians don't know where Nunavut is. They don't know who Inuit are," - Jordan Konek, Helen's nephew

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