Justin Jin Arctic 074.jpg | Archive

Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region.
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.

Add to Lightbox Download

Filename: Justin Jin Arctic 074.jpg
Copyright: 2011 by Justin Jin. All rights reserved.
Image Size: 5038x3401 / 5.0MB; antler antlers arctic chum chums cold colour digital documentary environment environmental freeze freezing frozen hardship herd herding herds ice indigenous inuit inuits jin journalism journalist justin minus nature nenets news nomad nomadic north north pole northern people photographs photography polar pole reindeer reindeers reportage russia russian siberia siberian snow social suffer suffering temperature tent tents tradition traditional tundra widerness wild winter yurt yurts

Nenets live in -40C (-40F) in tents, or "Yurts", in the Arctic tundra outside the city of Naryan-Mar in the Russian Nenets Autonomous Region. <br />
Their main livelihood is reindeers -- they sell the meat to sausage factories and the antlers to China for use as traditional medicine including aphrodisiac.