Slava works at the most remote weather station in the Arctic,with his Morse code machine and his Yuri Gagarin cuttings. Then one day, a photographer came bearing oranges, and champagne and a parrotEvgenia Arbugaeva was born in Tiksi,a tiny port in arctic Russia, but moved to Moscow to study, or before fitting a photographer in New York. Life in the Big Apple couldn’t absorb been further from the frozen world she had left behind. But,despite all its distractions, she yearned to go back. “It was isolated, and ” she says of Tiksi. “But it was fun. We had to create our own minute world.”Arbugaeva returned to the Arctic for her latest project,Weather Man. “There was a meteorological station in Tiksi I used to go to with my dad,” she says. “He had friends there. There are many of these stations in the Arctic, and far absent and tough to reach. I was always curious approximately who would move to the middle of nowhere.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com