Until The Ice Melts: A White Sea Exhibition

Viktor Lyagushkin is a world-renowned photographer, winner of countless contests, Nikon Ambassador and a National Geographic photographer.

- Viktor Lyagushkin

For almost 10 years, admirers of Viktor’s talent are surprised with his projects, such as the “Orda Cave. Awareness”, dedicated to the longest gypsum cave in the world which is located in the Urals and the “Princess of Whales”, where a naked woman swam under the ice with beluga whales and others.

The exhibition “Until The Ice Melts” is part of a large project by Viktor Lyagushkin on documenting the animals of the White Sea. The world’s first exhibition of photographs under the ice is opened to visitors from 19th of February 2019, beyond the Arctic Circle in the White Sea. Martians and spaceships, Eywa the Wood and alien brain, aquanaut traveling across the sea on a balloon - this is how photographer Viktor Lyagushkin showed the underwater world of the White Sea in his photographs. A wide-angle macro shot taken with a fisheye lens is a new photographic technique invented by Viktor. The invention allowed the author to do something that no one had managed before him: to show the tiny inhabitants of the underwater Arctic in their natural environment. The exhibition will last until the beginning of the ice melting.

The photos were taken in MarchSeptember 2018, in the same place where they are now on display - in the White Sea. Basically, the team consisted of two people: Viktor and his assistant, Bogdana. Also, the staff of the Arctic Circle Dive Centre provided for their dives and helped on the surface.