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Otherworldly photos of an Arctic city

Taken over seven months in 2012 to 2013 as part of her Days of Night/Nights of Day project, Russian photographer Elena Chernyshova’s images reveal what it’s like to live in one of the world’s most isolated cities.

In Norilsk, winter lasts nine months – and during the polar night the sun doesn’t rise for two months.