Until March 7th, Paris’s Musée de L’Homme is hosting “Destiny of the Dolgans”, an exhibition about the little-known Dolgan people photographed by Nicolas Mingasson. The exhibition’s 70 prints depict the way of life of this tribe from the northern peninsula of Taymyr in Siberia. The Dolgans are reindeer herders and one of the most isolated people in the Russian Arctic. Although many of them have long been sedentary, a few families still live a nomadic lifestyle, following their herds’ seasonal movements.
Nicolas Mingasson followed the Dolgans as they went about their daily life, revealing all of their diversity, caught between the traditional and contemporary worlds. While the elders remain devoted to their villages, their children and grandchildren more than ever look to the south and envision their future far from their homeland.
In the village streets, young Dolgans are (almost) dressed like youngsters anywhere else in the world. In the evening, they Skype their cousins who have already moved away and, when the weekend comes, they visit their still nomadic grandparents with their snowmobiles.
EXHIBITION
Destins Dolganes
Nicolas Mingasson
From January 20th to April 25th, 2016
Musée de L’Homme
17 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
75116 Paris
France
http://www.museedelhomme.fr
http://nicolasmingasson.com
