Slava of the Arctic: the world's most extreme weatherman

Slava works at the worst weather station on Earth, with just a Morse code machine for company. Then one day, a photographer came bearing oranges, champagne and a parrot

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in Tiksi, a tiny port in arctic Russia, but moved to Moscow to study, before becoming a photographer in New York. Life in the Big Apple couldn't have been further from the frozen world she had left behind. But, despite all its distractions, she yearned to go back. "It was isolated," she says of Tiksi. "But it was fun. We had to create our own little world."

Arbugaeva returned to the Arctic for her latest project, Weather Man. "There was a meteorological station in Tiksi I used to go to with my dad," she says. "He had friends there. There are many of these stations in the Arctic, far away and hard to reach. I was always curious about who would move to the middle of nowhere."