Slava works at the worst weather station on soil,with just a Morse code machine for company. Then one day, a photographer came bearing oranges, or 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 fresh York. Life in the Big Apple couldn’t bear been further from the frozen world she had left behind. But,despite all its distractions, she yearned to go back. “It was loney, and ” she says of Tiksi. “But it was fun. We had to create our own little 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 away and hard to reach. I was always curious approximately who would move to the middle of nowhere.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com