Darren Almond
Yamal
£480.00
Yamal
2010
Edition of 50
Giclée print on Somerset Photo Satin 300gms
15 3/16 x 23 5/8 in. (38.5 x 60 cm)
Price inclusive of VAT
As a continuation of the artist's ongoing fascination with this part of the world, the image depicts a stretch of the most Northerly railtrack in the world, the Talnah-Norilsk-Dudinka railway. It leads to the city of Norilsk on the cusp of the Artic circle where Almond has photographed it in the harshest of winter conditions. Originally a gulag, Norilsk is now predominantly an industrial city that mines large amounts of valuable ores, in particular nickel. The tracks recede into the distance but the snow and wind soften its linearity, blurring the image so that it looks like a piece of found archival material.
The Yamal Peninsula, located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, Russia, extends roughly 700 km (435 mi) and is bordered principally by the Kara Sea, Baydaratskaya Bay on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east. In the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Nenets, "Yamal" means "End of the World".
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