Humanities & Social Sciences 2 (2017 10) 255-270 ~ ~ ~ УДК 5527 An Image of Siberia in Contemporary Foreign Photography (the 90s of the 20th Century – the First Decade of the 21st Century) Anna S. Gruzdeva* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 20.01.2016, received in revised form 15.10.2016, accepted 03.02.2017 The article examines the most powerful and well-known works of foreign photographers of the late 20th – early 21st centuries about Siberia: Carl de Keyzer, Claudine Doury, Steeve Iuncker, Rafal Milach, Gert Jochems, et al. <...> Siberia both in Russian culture and in culture of the West is often considered as a special, “other” land, “the kingdom of the cold and darkness” or a rich, fertile land. <...> Therefore, in this article we have tried to analyze what kind of an image of Siberia is formed in works of foreign photographers of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, whether they are based on historical representations of this land, whether they use associative links “Siberia/cold”, “Siberia/exile”, and what emphasizes they put in their photographs. <...> Photography today is an independent art form, a powerful research tool to see Siberia through the eyes of foreign photographers and extend our customary notions about the land. <...> In the 19th century the sources of its formation were the notes of travellers, literary works and articles, notes from newspapers and magazines, as well as © Siberian Federal University. <...> In the 20th century a significant role in shaping the image of Siberia was played by cinematography, radio, television and the Internet, and at the end of the 20th beginning of the 21st – centuries – photography. <...> An Image of Siberia in Contemporary Foreign Photography in the 19th century travelling to Siberia was quite expensive; it required a lot of time and effort. <...> In the past century the “Iron curtain” did not allow foreign people to see the wild land, so the foreign photographers’ interest in Siberia occurs after the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s and continues to this day. <...> We also used articles considering topics of global transformations of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North of Siberia (N.P. Koptseva, K.V. Reznikova, A.V. Kistova, E.A. Sertakova) studying the concepts of “cold”, “climate”, “winter” as primary metaphors <...>