Join us online for a conversation with award winning documentary photographer and ICP Alum (DOC ‘09) Evgenia Arbugaeva. Arbugaeva will be joined by documentary photographer Maggie Steber for a discussion after sharing work from Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic, she will discuss her decade long four-part photographic project that examines life in her birthplace, the secluded port city Tiksi on the shore of the Laptev Sea, Russia. Traveling to the arctic for extended trips, each ‘chapter’ reveals the people, harsh climate, and spiritual solitude of the region that exists in extremes. Arbugaeva will share the process, impact, and experience balancing her personal visual storytelling while also working on assignments with leading publications.
About the Series
ICP Talks is ICP’s Photographer’s lecture series featuring renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or asks critical questions about the form. This season takes place online and features Jess T. Dugan and Evgenia Arbugaeva.
Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled. ICP Members will receive a coupon code to use for complimentary admission.
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Speaker Bios
Evgenia Arbugaeva (@evgenia_arbugaeva) was born in 1985 in the town of Tiksi, located on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia in Russia. In her personal work she often looks into her homeland - the Arctic, discovering and capturing the remote worlds and people who inhabit them. Evgenia is a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow, a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Time and The New Yorker magazines among others. She lives in London, UK.
Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer who has worked in 72 countries on humanistic, cultural, and historical projects. In 2017 she received a Guggenheim Foundation Grant for her project entitled The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma. Other honors include Pulitzer Prize Finalist, the Luci Award for Photojournalism, the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo First Prize in Spot News, the Olivier Rebbot Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, the Sprague Award, Overseas Press Club Photographer of the Year, Pictures of the Year First Prize in Documentary, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project.
In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine. She has produced multiple stories for National Geographic Magazine including coverage on Nepal, Dubai, the History of the African Slave Trade, the Cherokee Nation and stories on the science of memory and sleep. Steber has worked in Haiti for over three decades. Aperture published her monograph, DANCING ON FIRE, in 1991. Her work is included in the Library of Congress as well as among many other collections.
Steber served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer for four years and as the Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing projects that won a Pulitzer and were twice finalists for the award. She serves as judge on countless competitions and grants. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine. She is a photographer with VII Photo Agency.
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