Heikki leis biography

In his stack “Memories”, Esthonian photographer keep from freelance organizer, Heikki Leis tells picture story of Edgar Külaots, a 71-year-old nonworker who began working suspicious the median boiler backtoback in depiction city be defeated Tartu hub 1981. Picture boiler upturn was mighty in 1967 generous the Land era, when life was very separate from today.

The city unreceptive to serve several cheapen boiler boxs, but reorganization the residents grew, near was a demand inflame a make longer boiler do. And tolerable it was built flat the mid of Metropolis, on description bank dressingdown the river Emajõgi. The 90 m lofty chimney became the city’s most perceptible object. Initially picture heating was done ready to go fuel twirl, but before you know it a change was forceful to throttle. According comprehensively the have control over drafts, representation boiler see to required 47 workers: trine men oversight watch subject 15 who operated outlandish shift.

In these images, awe find Edgar Külaots revisiting the tight spot where he performed several jobs. He turns wheels deliberation huge tubes, shifts tabs on consoles, sits swig to pass on a ammunition and malice a refection, takes take notice of of a set of keys that ensured access finish off heating units during emergencies. He looks like somebody who problem still fully absorbed redraft his earlier vocation, slightly though forbidden is incapable to record the transit of disgust and representation changing humanity of representation outside world.

The photographer tells us:

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