Hunting Mammoths: Climate Change in Russia's Arctic

In the ancient past, hunters stalked woolly mammoths for their meat. Today, as climate change in Russia's remote Arctic reveals mammoth carcasses modern hunters seek the mammoths for their valuable tusks. Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva spent two months on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island, in Siberia, to document the hunt for ancient ivory.Evgenia was born in 1985 in the Arctic town Tiksi, Russia. In 2009 she graduated from International Center of Photography Photojournalism and Documentary Program. She now works as a freelance photographer and travels extensively, mainly focusing on exploration of Northern regions of her homeland.Lunch will be provided.