As part of V–A–C Sreda’s special New Year issue, we publish a work by the artist Elena Anosova, a participant of the first, second and third periods of the GES-2 grant programme.

Snow Storm is part of the Atlas of the First Snow series. Each photo recreates the subjects and visual images of a family album that Anosova has been compiling for several years. The artist’s ancestors are a Russian-Tungus community of hunters whose way of life, special relationship with nature, and rituals are preserved through time due to the harshness of the climate and isolation, remoteness from modern civilization.

Snow Storm was taken in the Katanga district of Irkutsk region, where locals use Buran snowmobiles, skis, and horses instead of cars. Through the documentation of unchanging landscapes and archetypal images of a family, the artist explores her own identity and path.