The project “Out-of-the-Way” was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very often more important than modern reality.

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Anosova's ancestors were hereditary hunters in a small settlement near Nizhnyaya Tunguska River. For almost three centuries, when they colonize that region of Siberia, they have lived in an old house as a large family with more than 15 children. Nowadays the population of the village is 130 people, and all of them are distant relatives: those who are not brothers, are related in a neighbourly way. As she recalls, the life “of this part of my family — my father’s siblings and numerous cousins and nephews — has not changed for centuries in that remote area surrounded with pristine wilderness”.

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Anosova travelled between 2015 and 2017 for the first time to this region, in order to explore the microcosm in which they live, which it is almost completly isolated from the outside world. In such an environment as the one she depicts, where modern civilization hardly penetrates and the closest town is 300 km away -and the transport connection functions only in winter time- it is not hard to imagine how mighty the local and family legends and tradicions still are in the settlement. For her, “this place is the epitome of mythology”.