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A Nomadic Life: By Photographer Hamid Sardar-Afkhami

From the excellent Anthony Luke blog comes this photo essay

Hamid Sardar-Afkhami is a professional photographer as well as a scholar of Tibetan and Mongol languages who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. After moving to Nepal in the late 1980’s and exploring Tibet and the Himalayas for more than a decade, he traveled to Outer Mongolia. Seeing the opportunity to create a single important collection concentrating on the last country where the majority of the population are still nomads, Sardar-Afkhami set up a mobile studio camp. With his arsenal of cameras of different formats, he mounts yearly expeditions into the Mongolian outback to document her nomadic traditions.

FalconBoy-Deloun-Bayin-Olgii-2007 Totem-Deer-2-West-Taiga-Hovsgol-2006 BlackPegasus-Deloun-Bayin-Olgii-2007see all the images here