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The lonely life of the Arctic weatherman

Evgenia Arburgaeva is a young Russian photographer, who has returned to the place of her birth to take haunting and beautiful images of lives lived alone. Her latest pictures - Weather Man, on show in London as part of the Arctic Stories exhibition - takes as her subject the life of Vyacheslav Korotki, a meteorologist who is a specialist in the polar north. He works in the remote settlement of Khodavarikha, sent by the state to measure all things weather-related. His wife lives far away; the nearest town takes an hour to reach by helicopter. Julian Marshall asked Evgenia why she had picked Mr Korotki as her subject.

(Credit: Evgenia Arburgaeva/The Photographers' Gallery)

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