A small-boat harbour tells you more about how a place actually lives than its main wharf does. The skiffs and open boats tied up here are transport, not recreation. Greenland has almost no roads between settlements, you travel by sea in summer and by sea ice, snowmobile or dog team in winter, so a boat is closer to a car than to a hobby.

Sisimiut sits just north of the Arctic Circle, and the working year is divided sharply by ice. In this photograph you can see both halves of that: boats in the water, and up the slope behind the town, sled dogs and snowmobiles waiting for winter. Greenland maintains a legal boundary north of which only Greenland sled dogs may be kept, to protect the breed's genetics: an unusual piece of legislation that tells you how seriously the working dog is still taken.

The town is growing, which in Greenland is not a given. Young people from smaller settlements move here for the high school and often stay, and the fishing industry provides the jobs that make staying possible. That combination, education plus employment, is the thing Greenland is trying to reproduce elsewhere.

On printing this one: a busy harbour frame is full of small legible detail, names on hulls, rigging, the gear stacked on the dock, and that detail is the pleasure of living with it. Print it large enough to reward standing close. If you choose paper, order a mat and frame at the same time; custom framing later costs considerably more.