Most of them were taken in the Arctic north-west, where Roberts was at pains to avoid the obvious. “Artistically, the Russian winter has always been romanticised in snow-covered villages and evergreen woods,” he says. “I wanted to get away from this idealisation and depict the raw original beauty in the reality of daily life.”
Pictured: Kola Bay, Murmansk, North-West Russia
The abandoned truck lies next to the Daniel Morgan, a United States warship torpedoed by the Germans in 1942. The ship sits rusting in the bay.
