Director: Evgenia Arbugaeva

Born in: Tiksi, Russia
Biography: Evgenia Arbugaeva is a documentary photographer based in London, UK. She is a National Geographic Society Fellow and a recipient of the International Center of Photography Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Awards for outstanding photography). Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Time Magazine, and the National Geographic magazine among others. HAULOUT came out of the photography project Evgenia did in Chukotka for a few years. The film is her directorial debut. She was nominated at the 95th Academy Awards in Documentary (Short Subject) for the film Haulout (2022).