Inspirational, funny, moving, dramatic, irreverent: I have always believed that a story, of whatever kind it is, has in itself an enormous and very often underestimated power.

It all started when we sleeved the pajamas of our parents begging them not to stop at the Little Red Riding Hood adventures, but to read us also of many other worlds and characters.
Then it turned into the first book we bought with our money that told us about a painful love or an adventure in unknown places.

That we should not forget is that the means of telling a story are infinite: there are those who use the written word and those who use the spoken word but, above all, those who capture it in images.

The Russian photographer, Evgenia Arbugaeva, obviously chose this last form to tell about the Russian Arctic, but above all about a curious inhabitant of this land, Vyacheslav Korotki, a meteorologist sent by his mother’s homeland in these cold areas to measure and record the climatic conditions. What was a place of work, soon became a home for the Russian scholar in the form of a centennial wooden cabin used by Russia as a weather station since 1933.

In the very little space at his disposal, Vyacheslav seems to have built a world to his measure, where he does not know solitude at all. A unique thing about his history is undoubtedly the Evgenia photographs, which transport us into an atmosphere not so far from those fairy tales that we read as children.