“Being a Docker is great for your creativity. Besides all the great workshops and inspiring people you meet that help you with your work, it sometimes feels like being in your childhood again. I’m living in a small treehouse and I’m outside constantly. When you’re home there’s always something else to do. Here your mind is free to be inspired.”
DOCKER #1
DOMINIKA GESICKA
There is a place where no one is born and no one dies. Of course you can die anywhere, but you cannot be buried here because it has been discovered that bodies fail to decompose. You cannot be born here because pregnant women are made to return to the mainland to give birth. There are no cats, no trees, no traffic lights. There is no amusement park, but there is a circus troupe. In the winter it is completely dark, but in the summer the sun never sets.
This is Longyearbyen, the largest settlement in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago and the world’s northernmost town. Although it is difficult to regard it as the best place to live, many people fall in love with it at first sight. Some people came here for two weeks and stayed for five years or more, but not many decide to settle here permanently. Sometimes you have the impression that people are trying to escape from something; that this is just a retreat. This is not real life.
Who? Dominika Gesicka
From Poland
Docking May 3 - 31, 2016
Working on This is not real life
About The world’s northernmost city, Longyearbyen on Svalbard, Norway.
