Evgenia Arbugaeva has won numerous photography competitions, including the Leica Oscar Barnack prize, and is a recipient of a grant from the Magnum Foundation, which supported her Tiksi project.
When it thrived—if such can be said about a village in the Arctic Circle—Tiksi was home to 12,000 people, many of whom worked at the seaport, the handful of scientific-research stations, and military bases nearby.
