The Photographs of Jim Wilson

The Nine Students from Nikolski
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

The photographs were made by Jim Wilson for NY Times: amazing images of a small remote village on a remote Aleutian island.

Nikolski is a village on Umnak Island, Aleutian archipelago. The single -classroom school there has been closed: there were only nine students there, from kindergarten up to 12th grade, and the law in Alaska states that a school can function with at least ten students. There is an article in yesterday's NY Times: in the Alaskan mathematics 10-1=0.

Nikolski Village on Umnak Island
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

The Wreckage of a Reeve Aleutian Plane That Crashed in 1965 is in the Background
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

Fishermen of Nikolski
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

Cleaning Silver Salmon
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

Ivan Krukoff with a Freshly Caught Salmon
Photo: Jim Wilson/NYT

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