Evgenia Arbugaeva, b.1985 and Maxim Arbugaev, b.1991 are sister and brother,
born in the town of Tiksi, located on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of
Yakutia. Their work often looks into their homeland — the Arctic, discovering and
capturing the remote worlds and people who inhabit them.
Maxim Arbugaev is a director, cinematographer, producer and winner of various
international film festival awards, including the Sundance Film Festival 2018 where
he received a World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography
for the film Genesis 2.0, which he co-directed with Christian Frei.
Filmography: The Hunters /2015/Russia/documentary short
Genesis 2.0 (co-director Christian Frei)/2018/Switzerland /documentary
VOY /2019/Russia/documentaryEvgenia Arbugaeva is a documentary photographer based in London, UK. She is a
National Geographic Society Fellow and a recipient of the International Center of
Photography Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Awards for an
outstanding photography). Her work has been exhibited internationally and
appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Time Magazine and the National
Geographic magazine among others. HAULOUT came out of the
photography project Evgenia did in Chukotka for a few years. The film is her
directorial debut.