Whisper of the Stars

Event Name:	Whisper of the Stars
Description:	Exhibition Whisper of the Stars Exhibition open to the public from Thursday 3 November until Friday 11 November 2011, Monday to Friday 4.00pm - 7.00pm A photographic exhibition of traditional life in Arctic Siberia by Bryan Alexander of Arcticphoto. Forty years ago this year, a young British photographer, Bryan Alexander, used a Royal Society of Arts travel bursary to visit North West Greenland where he lived in an Inuit community for four months. For Alexander this was the beginning of a lifetime documenting the Arctic and its people and the start of Arcticphoto. In total, Bryan has spent ten years living in isolated native camps and villages across the Arctic. Today, Arcticphoto, run by Bryan and his wife, Cherry, is the world’s most comprehensive specialist photo archive on Polar regions. Their work is an expanding record of these vast areas and the changes that have shaped the region over the past 40 years. Whisper of the Stars is the Alexander’s first exhibition in the UK for fifteen years and will show forty photographs depicting the life of native peoples from right across the Russian Arctic. Generally, people in the west are unfamiliar with the indigenous cultures of northern Siberia which makes this exhibition even more significant. Peoples like the Chukchi, Dolgan, Even, Khanty, Komi, Nenets, Nganasan, & Yakut all feature in this exhibit. The Nenets have the largest population (around 40,000) of Siberia’s northern natives and are traditionally reindeer herders. The name, Whisper of the Stars, comes from Yakutia, where the extreme cold creates a strange phenomenon. When the temperature dips below minus 53ºC, you can sometimes hear a soft whooshing noise as the vapour in exhaled breath turns to ice crystals in the cold dry air. The Yakut people call this, the whisper of the stars. In conjunction with the exhibition there will also be a book, Forty Below - Traditional Life in the Arctic to commemorate 40 years of photographing the Arctic and is a collection of works by Bryan Alexander from 1971 to the present day. Bryan Alexander will talk about his experiences on 3 Nov 2011 at 7.00pm at Pushkin House
Type of Event:	Photography Events
Event Agenda:	Tickets: admission free
Event Location:	PUSHKIN HOUSE
Event City:	London
Type of Venue:	Cultural Center
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Event Start Date	03-Nov-11

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