Mongolia, Khövsgöl Aimag, 2004 / Taiga forest
Baruun Taiga, June 2007 / The Dukha reindeer nomads live under extreme circumstances in the wooded taiga of Northern Mongolia. During the winter months, the temperatures can fall to 50 degrees below zero. On Baruun (Western) and Zuun (Eastern) Taiga, there still live a total of forty-one families.
Baruun Taiga, June 2007 / Batzaya
Baruun Taiga, August 2004 / In 1960, the Communist regime forced the majority of Dukha to give up their nomadic existence. The reindeer shepherds had to settle in two collectives. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the shepherds themselves chose once again to go and live in the taiga with their reindeer.
Baruun Taiga, August 2004 / The Batzaya family is departing for a lower plane where the five horses that they own can graze. The whole family helps with the separation and packing of their possessions.
Baruun Taiga, August 2004 / The fully domesticated reindeer are ridden and used for transporting loads.
Baruun Taiga, August 2004 / Otgon Bayar Zorigt with her daughter.
Baruun Taiga, June 2007 / Tool holding two reindeer.
Zuun Taiga, May 2007 / Punsalma (71 years old) left Tuva for Mongolia when she was ten years old.
Mongolia, Khövsgöl Aimag, 2004 / Bleeding Antlers.
Zuun Taiga, May 2007 / Bat, one of the leaders of Zuun Taiga, is a respected hunter and storyteller. In the taiga, hunting is restricted to the months of October and November. Only wolf, state enemy number one, and bear may be shot throughout the year.
Baruun Taiga, June 2007 / Batzaya
Zuun Taiga, May 2007 / This camp in Zuun Taiga is seventeen kilometres from the Russian border. In service of the local government, the families keep an eye on the neighbouring Tuva.
Mongolia, Khövsgöl Aimag, 2007 / Interior
Baruun Taiga, June 2007 / Burma
Mongolia, Khövsgöl Aimag, 2007 / Landscape
Zuun Taiga, May 2007 / Before 1945, the Tuva Republic was still independent of the Soviet Union. After it was annexed by the Soviet Union after WW2, many Tuvan nomads crossed the border into Mongolia. They did not want to work for the newly founded Russian Kolchoz farms.
Baruun Taiga, June 2007