Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva's photo series of the weather man Vyacheslav Korotki is a rare glimpse of someone who lives deeply in solitude, far away from our civilization. The images are absolutely fantastic and coupled with Korotki's profile, this is an absolutely intriguing work.

Vyacheslav Korotki is a man of extreme solitude. He is a trained polyarnik, a specialist in the polar north, a meteorologist. In the past thirty years, he has lived on Russian ships and, more recently, in Khodovarikha, an Arctic outpost, where he was sent by the state to measure the temperatures, the snowfall, the winds. The outpost lies on a fingernail of a peninsula that juts into the Barents Sea. The closest town, by any definition, is an hour away by helicopter. He has a wife, but she lives far away, in Arkhangelsk. They have no children. On his rare visits to Arkhangelsk, he has trouble negotiating the traffic and the noise. […]

Korotki's working materials:

A view of the Barents Sea:

Via Onedio.