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The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: jjj on October 26, 2015, 06:18:07 pm

Title: A very lonely job
Post by: jjj on October 26, 2015, 06:18:07 pm

Really nice set of images of a Russian metorologist (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/26/evgenia-arbugaeva-weather-man-the-most-cut-off-man-on-earth-in-pictures#img-1) living and working in the back end of nowhere.

More info re the subject and photographer can be found here. (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/26/slava-of-the-arctic-worlds-most-extreme-weatherman-evgenia-arbugaeva-photographs)

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: John R on October 26, 2015, 10:56:07 pm

Hey thanks for that Jeremy. Hope I got your name right. Really fine work with lots of mood and emotional impact. That goes for the rest of her work, very fine indeed.

JR

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: David Anderson on October 27, 2015, 12:18:13 am

Great photos. They certainly tell a story..

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: francois on October 27, 2015, 06:29:59 am

Very interesting article with moving photos.

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: jjj on November 03, 2015, 06:17:52 pm

Quote from: John R on October 26, 2015, 10:56:07 pm

Hey thanks for that Jeremy. Hope I got your name right.

You certainly did. A tricky challenge that seems to escape many denizens of the net.  ;D

Glad people liked the work.

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 03, 2015, 06:41:33 pm

Kudos to the photographer... and Mr. Korotki, of course. A phenomenal choice of tonalities to portray the isolation and solitude.

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: AreBee on November 04, 2015, 04:42:25 am

Slobodan,

Welcome back.

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: RSL on November 04, 2015, 09:08:51 am

Thanks, Jeremy. Really interesting work.

Title: Re: A very lonely job
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on November 04, 2015, 02:28:26 pm

Quote from: Rob B. on November 04, 2015, 04:42:25 am

Slobodan,

Welcome back.

Thanks, Rob!

To elaborate about my excitement regarding the OP photos: it brings back memories of my eight years working in Russia (for American companies). It was mostly the glitter of westernized places in Moscow, but I did travel to some provincial sites as well, though definitely not as remote as the OP one. Even in Moscow, it gets dark and gloomy pretty early in winter time, and even there exist parts of the city with similarly desolated living conditions.

I can almost smell the air in those photographs, just as many Russian building entrances had a specific smell I never encountered anywhere else. I remember those flowery wallpapers, peeling wall paint, old furniture. Rugged, weathered, stoic men.