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Dixon. Ice Borders — Life in Russia's Far North

Nov 01, 2016 - 01:00 pm

For his project "Dixon. Ice Borders," Swiss photographer Beat Schweizer traveled to Dixon — Russia's northernmost permanent settlement.

The journey documented life in a hardly reachable settlement, far beyond the Arctic Circle.

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