cat vinton is in search of the world's remaining nomadic souls
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.
since earliest times, tribes have moved across the great central asian plains and mountain ranges that cover present day mongolia, a land of horse and herdsmen.
the gobi desert is a land that invites exploration – a vast, wild land of undisturbed beauty, sparsely inhabited by some of the last truly nomadic people of the world, how long they will last is questionable.
the sami, an indigenous people of the arctic, have an ability to listen to the voice of nature and adapt to its demands. their culture has been shaped by a landscape of the arctic ocean, the fjords and the tundra.
the sami of norway, roam the finnmark plateau, they are the reindeer herdsmen, who live a nomadic life, around the ‘lávvu’ (a sami tepee)
'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
