The Second Fire: Love Letter to Baikal

The Second Fire is an immersive look at Lake Baikal in Siberia, the oldest, deepest and most voluminous lake in the world, which contains more than 20% of the world’s fresh water. Authors Gabriela Bulisová and Mark Isaac spent a year in eastern Siberia and created a multifaceted project that places special emphasis on the lake’s environmental problems, including increasing pollution and rapid climate change. Through experimental photography, multi-channel videos and a uniquely designed photo book, they capture the vastness and majesty of the lake, intimate moments of its resilient inhabitants and quirky sites, and the urgent dangers that threaten them.