This photo series has a unique story.
High in Kazakhstan's Tian Shan mountains stands a research station born in 1958, at the height of the space race, when the world fought to be first in understanding the cosmos. Scientists call it simply the Space Station. Its mission: to study cosmic rays — astrophysical and nuclear — at the highest energies known to science.
In the 1990s, when the economy collapsed, researchers kept working unpaid, refusing to abandon their work. In 2011, they launched Horizon, an installation more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, pushing the boundaries of high-energy physics from a remote mountain outpost most people have never heard of.
I spent four years photographing this place, searching for a visual language equal to its story. I hope viewers feel both the scale of the mountains and the quiet grandeur of human persistence.
This photo series has a unique story.
High in Kazakhstan's Tian Shan mountains stands a research station born in 1958, at the height of the space race, when the world fought to be first in understanding the cosmos. Scientists call it simply the Space Station. Its mission: to study cosmic rays — astrophysical and nuclear — at the highest energies known to science.
In the 1990s, when the economy collapsed, researchers kept working unpaid, refusing to abandon their work. In 2011, they launched Horizon, an installation more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, pushing the boundaries of high-energy physics from a remote mountain outpost most people have never heard of.
I spent four years photographing this place, searching for a visual language equal to its story. I hope viewers feel both the scale of the mountains and the quiet grandeur of human persistence.
