The beginning of a snowstorm in a ravine near the village of Tumanny. Kola Peninsula. March 2010

This image was produced in a northern landscape that not exists in its original form. The territory was submerged following the construction of a reservoir, resulting in the flooding of natural relief, shorelines, and previously inhabited spaces. Unlike physically destroyed landscapes, such areas are not eliminated but rendered invisible, removed from direct visual and spatial experience while continuing to exist beneath the water surface. From a cultural perspective, submerged territories of this kind correspond to a mode of loss without ruins, in which absence persists without visible traces.

Large-format film photography followed by professional drum scanning allows the recording of surface conditions that conceal the submerged landscape — light, water, and residual spatial structure. This file constitutes a documentary visual record of the territory after its radical transformation, rather than an interpretation or artistic reconstruction of what has been lost.