Kupol gold mine, Chukotka
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Kupol gold mine, Chukotka
Sandwiched between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and straddling the Arctic Circle, Chukotka's winters are severe; average temperatures drop to minus 40C, with complete polar darkness lasting three months. The Kupol mine closes for four months each winter.
Motherland
September 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 18.4 x 22.8 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0015
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 097 +3 +0 +0 +0 097.tif (1) 19:02:05
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 097 +3 +0 +0 +0 097.tif (1) 19:02:05
