Hyperborea

Stories from the Arctic

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A career-to-date retrospective of a unique creative talent

Hyperborea presents unforgettable visual tales of life in the Siberian Arctic that photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva knew when she was growing up in Tiksi, a town on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia. Her work discloses both the fragility and beautiful desolation of the land and those who inhabit it, and her rigorously composed photographs glow with rich otherworldly colour, bristle with the raw vibrancy of the climate and exhibit the quiet intensity of lives borne out in seclusion and extremes.

This beautifully produced photobook contains a decade of work, with photographs selected from across the full range of Arbugaeva’s series and extensive travels across the Russian Arctic coast and to connect with people living in these remote and inhospitable places. The photographs that she brings back from her long-term visits convey a world where everything seems connected: humans and nature, the sky and the land. An elemental space of deep solitude and slower pace of life. Her images invite us to contemplate a territory that has been a place of longing and imagination for many, which is now under existential threat from a multitude of environmental changes.

With an introduction by Piers Vitebsky, four texts by Arbugaeva to supplement the images, and a specially commissioned map to provide a sense of where Arbugaeva’s work is located, Hyperborea is a future collectible for all photobook fans and an introduction to a global audience of a very special talent in the world of photography.
Extent: 112 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 45
Publication date: 2023-10-12
Size: 21.5 x 28.6 cm
ISBN: 9780500026229

Press Reviews

Powerful
Daily Mail

Arbugaeva has a particular empathy for people living in the far north ? and the conditions they face. Hyperborea reveals a decade of her travels around the region, documenting the fragility and desolation of the land and the people on it
The i Newspaper

Born in the remote port of Tiksi in northeast Siberia, Arbugaeva has spent much of her career capturing her homeland from air, land and sea
New York Times Book Review

Arbugaeva skilfully captures the multi-dimensionality of the Arctic – a realm of ice that appears primitive yet is rich with stories, landscapes, colours, and emotions. Her work unveils both the beauty and the deep melancholy of this unique place
Contemporary Lynx

About the Authors

Evgenia Arbugaeva is a Russia-born, London-based photographer, a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow, and a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Time and The New Yorker magazines among others.

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