[Trending] I Spent 6 Months Traveling In Siberia Alone To Photograph Its Indigenous People
Hi! My name is Alexander Khimushin. Nine years ago I packed my backpack to see the world and have been globe-trotting ever since visited 84 ...
Hi! My name is Alexander Khimushin. Nine years ago I packed my backpack to see the world and have been globe-trotting ever since visited 84 countries. While travelling the world, I realized that people are the most amazing part of it.
Three years ago I came up with an idea of the photo project ‘The World In Faces’ that would celebrate beauty and diversity of the world through the portraits of ordinary people. Especially from those remote places, where culture and traditions are still alive. Since then I have taken thousands of portraits all over the world. Last six months I photographed indigenous people of Siberia.
An enormous region, almost a double size of Australia and 30% larger than the United States, Canada or the whole Europe. Siberia is one of the world’s last frontiers of the unknown. No doubt, everyone heard that it is very cold and sparsely populated, but what do we know about people living there?
During my half-a-year-long solo journey, I covered 25,000 km to visit many remote locations across Siberia: from lake Baikal shores to the coast of Japan sea, from endless steppes of Mongolia to the coldest place on Earth – Yakutia. All with only one mission – to capture faces and traditions of various groups of indigenous people living there. While some of the ethnic groups are dominant in their regions, many others are on the edge of disappearance, with a total population as low as only a hundred people left. They remain largely unknown to the outside world.
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Sakha Girl
Nivkhi Man
Buryat Girl
Oroqen Man
Evenki Elder
Yukagir Girl
Even Young Man
Tofalar Man
Buryat Man
Evenki Little Girl
Udege Man
Sakha Girl
Uilta Little Girl
Tuvan Mongolian Man
Dolgan Girl
Ulchi Woman
Evenki Mom with Baby
Orochi Woman
Negidal Girl
Semeyskie Woman
Tazy Woman
Evenki Girl
Nanai Girl
Shenehen Buryat Girl
Ulchi Young Man
Soyot Girl
Ainu Young Man
Buryat Shaman
Yakut Shaman
Udege Shaman
Buryat Gelugpa Monk
Russkoustintsy Woman
Chukcha Girl
Ulchi Girl
Evenki Little Reindeer Herder
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