Text by Bruce Berman, Editor
Whether you play guitar, do not play guitar, have no interest in playing guitar or don’t get enough sleep because you can’t stop playing the guitar, this is one of the most soothing videos we have ever seen.
It’s about more than the guitar.
Craftsmanship still exists. Everything is gone if it doesn’t. And there is nothing that should be thrown away except from our petroleum-based, plastic mess that our “stuff” is now mostly made of.
Watch as he repairs and brings this back to life -for another 100 years?- without ruining its acquired character.
In a throw-away world there is hope for a quality existence.
EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC
Vyacheslav Korotki walks out under a full moon to an abandoned lighthouse
that used to serve the Northern Sea Route, to gather firewood to help heat his home.
Photograph by Evgenia Arbugaeva
Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in the town of Tiksi, located in the Russian Arctic. In 2009, she graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program in New York and since then works as a freelance photographer. In her personal work she often looks into her homeland—the Arctic, discovering and capturing the remote worlds and people who inhabit them.
Arbugaeva has been a winner of various competitions. She is a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant. Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in such publications as National Geographic, mare, Le Monde, and The New Yorker magazines, among others.
EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA: THE LANDSCAPE OF SIBERIA
Untitled (2012) from the series Tiksli
by Evgenia Arbugaeva
For more work see: http://bit.ly/2y8bQha