cat's work is structured around journeys, life and movement; her projects address themes of freedom, space and spirit, across many locations and cultures around the world.
cat vinton is in search of the worlds remaining nomadic souls, she is visually documenting a disappearing way of life before it has been totally absorbed by 'modern society'.
the lack of a fixed abode, the portability of possessions, the fact that wealth is calculated in the amount of livestock, and a reckless sense of self-sufficiency, surrounds nomadic people. their endurance and experience has fostered a hardy hospitable people with a passionate spirit of freedom.
cat's commitment to capture the beauty of these wild lands and remote communities of free-spirited people, has and will take her to some of the most isolated and challenging locations in the world.
cat has spent time living and documenting the sámi, an indigenous people of the arctic. the mongolian nomads in one of the remotest parts of the south gobi desert and most recently cat lived with a family who still live most of their life on the waves, around the surin islands, in the andaman sea; the moken, a nomadic sea culture of austronesian people, the sea gypsies.
'the land
is different
when you have lived there.
wandered
sweated
frozen
seen the sun
set rise
disappear return
the land is different
when you know
here are roots
ancestors'
nils-aslak valkeapaa
