19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Nomads

In the far north of Russia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, indigenous peoples continue to live according to the traditional way of life: they wander from place to place with their herds of deer. In the photo there is a Nenets family, Angelina and Leonid Venga, together with her three children. The indigenous peoples of the north spend all years in the tundra from birth to ripe old age. Except for the time when children leave to study in boarding schools. It was surprising for me to learn that they are not hostages of the situation, they have a choice. Many families have apartments in settlements, but they do not want to live in them. Of their own free will, they choose to roam the endless expanses of the tundra all their lives. They don't need another life.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Russia
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Copyright: © Yulia Nevskaya