I recently saw these stunning photographs by Hamid Sardar entitled “Dark Heavens: Hunters and Shamans of Mongolia” at Tibet House Gallery in Chelsea and it sparked a ’something’ in me. The tenderness and the deep rooted connection between Human & Animal is a poignant narrative that has existed, well since time immemorial…

After living in Nepal and exploring Tibet and the Himalayas for more than a decade, Hamid went to Outer Mongolia in 2000 to document the nomadic tribes and their way of life.  Following horse-breeders, bear-hunters, wolf-tamers, eagle-masters and reindeer people on their seasonal migrations and hunting expeditions, Hamid’s photographs focus on an ancient and enduring feature of nomadic civilization – the totem-like practices and beliefs connecting people to a fabulous pantheon of spirit-animals.

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