In 2013 Alexander Gronsky photographed Norilsk, an isolated city in the Siberian north built by Gulag prisoners on the world's largest nickel deposits — the most northerly and the most polluted city in Russia. Working with a large-format camera and a muted, predominantly grey palette, Gronsky draws the viewer along receding perspective lines into the bleak, near-empty reality of an over-industrialised place, finding an almost romantic register in its dull extremity.