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Daniel Miller: Nomads of Tibet and Bhutan
Our August 20 Lecturer: "Nomadic pastoralism has been portrayed as one of the great advances in the evolution of mankind. It is an adaptation by people to grassland areas of the world where the raising of livestock is more supportive of human life than the growing of crops. People who specialize in livestock production requiring periodic movements of their herds are known as nomadic pastoralists, or, simply nomads. The survival of nomads on the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya provides examples of nomadic practices that were once widespread throughout Asia and Africa, but are now increasingly hard to find. As such, these portraits of nomads offer a rare glimpse into a way of life that is rapidly vanishing.
The lives of the nomads are tuned to the growth of the grass and the seasonal pulse of the grazing lands. The grasslands provide the theatre in which the nomads and their animals interact to make a living. Over centuries, the nomads acquired complex knowledge about the environment in which they lived and upon which their lives depended, which enabled them to persist in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. But, they did more than just survive. The nomads created a unique, vibrant culture, about which, even today, so little is known."
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Jeroen Nooter - Photographer
"In my work I try to bridge the different realities of everyday life; when I travel to faraway countries, I always ask myself what my life would've been like had I been born there instead. Everyday reality in India or Mongolia is so far removed from that in Europe that it is almost unimaginable that these are taking place at the same time on the same planet."
"When I was five we lived in a small village in Greenland for a year; my father was an anthropologist and, in order to better integrate, he dragged along the entire family. This indelibly planted the seed of the theory of relativity in my mind. Later I became even more aware of how an environment shapes a life and generates a certain perception of reality. This reality is in actual fact just one of many."
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David Edwards Mongolia Images
David Edwards has been a freelance photographer for over sixteen years and a river guide in the Grand Canyon for 25 years. He has guided on numerous river expeditions around the world as a boatman, guide, & photographer.
Dave is co-owner of First Contacts, a horse trekking company that visits remote regions of Mongolia.
In 1996, Dave and his fellow photographer & river guide, Geoffrey Gourley began a non-profit organization.Flagstaff International Relief Effort (F.I.R.E.) was founded to bring international aid to the orphans and poverty stricken in Mongolia.
Dave lives and works in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dave participated in trips on the first descents of the Yangtze River in China and the Bashkaus in Siberia. He has worked as a photographer and guide in Africa, Alaska, Chile, Bolivia, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, and throughout the Southwestern U.S.
His work has appeared in numerous national and international publications. His focus is on the documentary photographic essay.
As a freelance photographer, Dave has traveled extensively throughout Asia, specifically to document the native horse culture and the Kazakh Eagle Hunters of Western Mongolia. In 1997, he received a Photography Development Grant from National Geographic Magazine.
The Kazakh Eagle Hunters story was published in National Geographic Magazine in September of 1999. Recently, one of Dave's photographs was featured by National Geographic Magazine as one of the 100 best photographs in a Special Collector's Edition, vol. 1 of the magazine.
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