Evgenia Arbugaeva
Evgenia Arbugaeva | |
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Born | 1985 (age 38–39) Yakut ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Russian |
Occupation | Photographer |
Known for | Photography of the Russian Arctic |
Evgenia Arbugaeva (born 1985) is a photographer of the Russian Arctic.[1] Having grown up in Yakutsk, she has an empathy with the people living in the far north and the difficult living conditions they experience, and several of her photographic projects have involved them. The National Geographic has funded her to photograph the people and economic changes on Russia's northern coast.
Early life and education
Arbugaeva was born in
Photography
Arbugaeva's photographic method involves living with her subjects on a long enough term to become friends with them and for them to relax in front of her camera.
In 2010 Arbugaeva returned to Tiksi, now becoming a ghost town, on a personal visit to compare it to her memories, but left the town with only one photo she liked, of a teenage girl playing on the seashore. Inspired by the photo, she traveled back to Tiksi in 2011 to meet the girl and her family and to document their daily life, overlain with her own memories.[1][2][3][5][8] Despite the decline of the town and the difficult life there (which drove her host family to plan their own departure), her photos in this project are "bright and whimsical, their compositions and vivid colours redolent of the books she read there as a child".[8]
Arbugaeva learned of the weather stations of northern Russia in a dog sledding incident, when she and her father had to take shelter from bad weather at one of the stations. In her project "Weather Man", she took a two-month passage on an icebreaker to 22 of the stations, including the station at Khodovarikha, where she met meteorologist Vyacheslav (Slava) Korotki. The portrait taken of Vyacheslav Korotki is an intimate story of an individualistic man, who is facing the fading winter of the Arctic. In early 2014, she returned to Khodovarikha by helicopter for a two-and-a-half-week visit and photography session with Korotki.[1][7][8] Based on this work, a much darker series of photos than the ones from Tiksi,[8] she published a profile of Korotki in The New Yorker.[9]
Arbugaeva's other photography projects have included nomadic Yakut reindeer herders in Sakha,[5] and "Amani", a sequence of fictionalized images set on an abandoned anthropological research station on a former German coffee plantation in Tanzania.[1]
Recognition
Arbugaeva is the 2013 winner of
In 2022, her film
References
- ^ a b c d e Spicer, Emily (20 July 2017), "Evgenia Arbugaeva: 'I'm always making up stories and believing in magic'", Studio International
- ^ Oskar Barnack Award, 2013, retrieved 2018-09-05
- ^ a b c d e f Estrin, James (7 February 2012), "Siberian Memories, Warm and Real", Lens: Photography, Video, and Visual Journalism, The New York Times
- ^ Hydrometeorological Observatory of Tiksi, Russia, Earth System Research Laboratories, retrieved 2018-09-06
- ^ a b c d Mateo, Ferran (9 March 2012), "The distant latitudes of childhood", Russia Beyond
- ^ a b c Harlan, Becky (3 March 2016), "The Wild Whimsy of the Arctic", National Geographic, archived from the original on 2018-03-19
- ^ a b Padley, Gemma (16 June 2015), "Evgenia Arbugaeva took an icebreaker through the Arctic Ocean", British Journal of Photography
- ^ a b c d Bowcock, Simon (26 October 2015), "Slava of the Arctic: the extreme weatherman living in a timewarp", The Guardian
- ^ Arbugaeva, Evgenia (15 December 2014), "Weather Man", Portfolio, The New Yorker
- ^ "Four Visionary Storytellers Selected as First Class of National Geographic Media Innovation Fellows", National Geographic, 4 June 2018, archived from the original on 2018-09-06
- ^ "Five New Yorker films receive 2023 Academy Award nominations", The New Yorker, 24 January 2023