Located in the heart of Siberia, the village of Oymyakon in Russia is considered the coldest inhabited place on Earth. A record temperature of -90°F (-67.7°C) was recorded in 1933 – the lowest temperature ever registered at any inhabited location in the world.

 

Recently, photographer Amos Chapple, from New Zealand, decided to take a little trip to capture images of everyday life in this village near Yakutsk, the coldest city on Earth, where 300,000 people live at average temperatures of -34°C. Chapple says that one of the main challenges of his project – in addition to enduring the fierce cold weather- was to operate his camera. The temperatures were so low that the optical zoom of his lens would sometimes freeze in place.