Video: "The world in faces": 35 stunning portraits of Negidal, Ulchi and Yakuts
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Nine years ago, I packed my backpack and went on a trip around the world. Since then I have visited 84 countries. As I traveled, I realized that the most amazing part of the world is people.
Photographer Alexander Khimushin says:
Three years ago, I came up with the idea of a photo project "The World in Faces", which would tell about the beauty and diversity of the world through portraits of ordinary people. Especially people from those distant places where local traditions and culture are still alive. Since then, I have taken thousands of pictures all over the world. For the last six months I have photographed people from the indigenous peoples of Siberia.
Siberia is huge: it is almost twice the size of Australia, 30% more than the United States, Canada or the whole of Europe. This is one of the last uncharted areas in the world. Of course, everyone has heard that Siberia is very cold and sparsely inhabited, but what do we know about the people who live there?
For six months, I alone covered 25 thousand kilometers to visit the remote corners of Siberia: from Lake Baikal to the shores of the Sea of Japan, from the endless steppes of Mongolia to the coldest place on earth - Yakutia. And all this in order to capture the faces and traditions of local indigenous people from different peoples. There are large ethnic groups prevailing in their regions, but at the same time, many nationalities are on the verge of extinction: to the point that there are only 100 people left in them. The outside world knows almost nothing about them.
Yakut (self-name - Sakha).
Evenk girl with a reindeer.
Ulchiyka (self-name - nani).
Ulchiyka.
Even (until 1931 the people were called tungus).
A girl from the Orok people (self-name - Uilta).
Yakut.
Evenka.
Nivkh.
Buryatka.
Soyot girl.
Evenka.
Negidalka (self-name - elkan beyenin, that is, "local people").
Basin.
Ain.
Buryat shaman.
Shenekhen Buryat woman.
Evenka with a child.
Russkoustinka.
Chukchanka (self-name - lygoravetlat).
Orochon.
Nanayka.
Ulchi.
Buryat.
Even.
Orochanka.
Yukagirka.
Semeyskaya woman.
Udegean.
Udege shaman.
Tofalar (former name - Karagasy, self-name - Tofa).
Tuvan.
Yakut shaman.
Dolganka.
Buryat monk of the Gelugpa school.
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