Norway

need to get into some kind of shipwreck i think that would fix me

Inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women. Photographed by Oded Wagenstein.

“In the remote village of Yar-Sale in Northern Siberia, live a group of elderly women. They were once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders. However, in their old age, they spend most of their days in seclusion, isolated from the world they loved and their community. While men are usually encouraged to remain within the migrating community and maintain their social roles, the women often face the struggles of old age alone.It took a flight, a sixty-hour train ride from Moscow, and a seven-hour bone-breaking drive across a frozen river to meet them. I immersed myself in their closed community, and for days, over many cups of tea, they shared their stories, lullabies, and longings with me.On this series, the memories of the past, represented by the images of the outside world, are combined with the portraits of current reality.

By doing so, I tried to give their stories a visual representation. One that could last after they are already gone.  

(*Like Last Year’s Snow is a Yiddish expression – referring to something which is not relevant anymore)”

- Oded Wagenstein

oh so you consider the past “romantic” but when I tell you about my dream of being an 1800s arctic explorer who dies homoromantically frozen in the arms of their shipmate while dreaming of tar-black horror terrors under the ice and forgetting the taste of sunshine, shivering and calling Billy’s name over and over out again even though he’s stopped moving and it echoes against the frigid rotting halls of the ship as the cold eats away at my nerve endings

suddenly I’m “disturbed” and won’t be invited to anymore “Victorian themed weddings.” hypocrites.

The Norwegian research vessel Lance is stuck in the Arctic ice, 2015

Reading anything about Arctic explorers you're just sitting there like

My quirky and curious Adélie penguin friends

kids these days just want to be on phone. NO ONE is dying at my antarctic research station

in a parasocial relationship with the sea

one tab open on the terror (2018), the other tab open on “schools with polar studies degree”

Some quick ol studies from screencaps.