Christophe Jacrot, with his series En dessous de zéro, continues his exploration of extreme winters, started in Iceland with the series and the book Snjór (h’artpon, 2016), which have enjoyed great public and critical success. He invites us this time to a world tour in the blizzard, with images taken where the wind blows hard: Siberia, Canada, through the Vercors or Japan.
This frozen trip has five stages:
Norilsk (Siberia, Russia): This mining town built under Stalin by prisoners to exploit the nickel of the subsoil, is located 200km north of the Arctic Circle. Accessible only by air and prohibited to foreigners, it is one of the most polluted and coldest cities in the world. The mercury can drop to -50 ° while blowing the “Purga”, wind that frequently reaches 100km / h. Many buildings today risk collapsing du to the melting of the permafrost in northern Siberia: Some housing units in Norilsk have already been evacuated.
