The Toughest Job
46,6
Svalbard Architecture
City Structures

This portfolio presents my urban work, focused on contemporary city environments, architecture and everyday public spaces.

I observe the city through structure, rhythm and visual order, working with light, scale and geometry to shape a calm, balanced view of urban space. The images are built around atmosphere and form, capturing the city as a living environment rather than a collection of landmarks.
Human Presence

This portfolio presents my work with people in real environments, from street scenes and travel moments to lifestyle and documentary contexts.

I work with tension, contrast and raw presence, focusing on how people interact with their surroundings and with each other. The visual language is direct and expressive, built around natural light, strong contrast and a sense of immediacy rather than polished staging.
Open Landscapes

This portfolio presents my landscape and nature work, created through personal projects and selected commissioned journeys across different regions.

I work with light, color and composition to convey a sense of space, balance and atmosphere. The focus is on clarity and visual restraint showing natural environments in a calm, thoughtful way, where scale, form and subtle mood define the image
Inside Spaces

This portfolio features my interior photography for residential and commercial spaces, created for designers, developers, hotels and private clients.

Through color and composition, I build a visual narrative that highlights the character, mood and key design decisions of each space, shaping how the interior is perceived by the client and their audience.
Motion & Design

This portfolio features my automotive work for premium and performance brands, created for agencies, dealerships and editorial projects.

I focus on the car as an object of design and engineering, placing it in real environments like racetracks, urban locations, industrial spaces and natural landscapes, with strong attention to geometry, light and surface quality.
About author
Nikolay Epifanov
International Photographer
Works with agencies, commercial brands, architects, galleries, magazines, influencers and designers.

Exhibitions from the international World Look series:
Leica Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
LUMAS Gallery Riga, Riga, Latvia, 2018
Photo exhibition from the World Look series, organized by the Moscow Cultural Center in collaboration with Nick Epifanov Photography, 2018

World Look is an international exhibition project created to present the world from a different perspective, with a focus on detail, visual structure and underlying geometry. The series features photographs captured across diverse regions and environments worldwide.

Magnum Photos Shortlisted, December 2019 — visual story "People".
ND Photography Awards — Architecture Category, 2nd and 3rd Place, Professional Winners, 2020,
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Life in the Arctic is harsh, and during the polar night being outside settlements without GPS, transport, or a weapon is extremely dangerous. That’s why across Svalbard there are small unlocked huts where anyone can find food, shelter, and warmth.
Paulabreen Glacier. It is only possible to reach Paulabreen using snowbikes while the water surface is frozen. In the summer time you may only observe it from the distance. It becomes safe to drive up to the foot of the glacier in winter once the ice thickness exceeds 20 centimeters and it can withstand a 300kg snowbike.
This antenna is a part of Isfjord Radio - the coast radio station and weather station in Svalbard, Norway. The station was established in 1933, and has played an important role in the telecommunications between the Svalbard archipelago and the outside world. The station was destroyed during World War II, and rebuilt in 1946. The station was important for shipping traffic and air traffic. Isfjord Radio was automated and depopulated in 1999. Parts of the outdated installations have been preserved as a historical site.
A piece of cozy architecure that was found in the middle of the frozen plains.
On the way to Paulabreen Glacier. It was a pretty wild 200km long snowbike ride there and back again from Barentsburg, a Russian Arctic town, based in Norway.
Local Architecture and Nature in Svalbard

Thousand kilometers through the snow plains in search of local architecture, people and natural treasures.
During and after construction, empty houses began to be squatted by migrant and homeless people, which led to tension with locals. These problems were later solved.
The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing carried out noise measurements in the apartments of buildings located within 50 meters of WHSD columns.
Residents of those houses that remained undisturbed by construction had their original wooden windows replaced with new plastic frames to protect against traffic noise from above. These were installed free of charge in the bedrooms and living rooms.
Those who weren't resettled lived with the construction process hovering overhead.
Some of the resettled inhabitants had lived in Kanonerskiy Ostrov all their lives, since the 1950s. In those days, the port could be crossed by foot on small bridges, since there was no ship navigation in the area at that time.
46.6

The Western High-Speed Diameter is a toll motorway in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The first section of the road open to traffic was an eight-lane motorway. Some of the sections were built right above the residential neighborhoods of St. Petersburg. The total length of the toll motorway is 46.6 kilometers.
Until 1983, when an underwater tunnel was built connecting the island with the port infrastructure and mainland, the tight-knit community of local residents was extremely isolated. Outsiders were rare and people, at times, did not see the need to lock their doors.
Healthy plants are visible only on a nearby mountain, beyond the reach of the poisonous volcanic air.
One trail unites tourists, miners and guides, who were often mine workers in the past. Our guide, Farel (ex-miner) insists that workers make relatively good money: on average $10-$14 a day.
Not all of the miners can afford a trolley, so they have to carry their sulfur down in baskets.
Short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide in the air around the volcano is linked to airway constriction and asthma symptoms.
Trees do not survive under such conditions, unlike thick tropical foliage.
Until 1983, when an underwater tunnel was built connecting the island with the port infrastructure and mainland, the tight-knit community of local residents was extremely isolated. Outsiders were rare and people, at times, did not see the need to lock their doors.
The Toughest Job

Mount Ijen, Indonesia, 2016. It has been more than 64 years since Mount Ijen last erupted, but the volcano is still very much alive, and it is being mined by some of the toughest men in the world.
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