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A Nenets fishermens' camp on the bank of the River Taz. Tazovsky region, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

Marina Valeeva, a young Komi woman,with her two daughters inside a reindeer skin tent at their winter camp. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Two Forest Nenets girls playing with a toboggan at a winter camp in the Purovsky region of the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia.

A Sami reindeer herd at their winter pastures near Lovozero on the Kola Peninsula. NW Russia. 2005

A Khanty reindeer herder near Numto in Khanty Mansiysk, W. Siberia, Russia. 2000

Nenets reindeer herders,Alexandre Serotetto with his wife,Nyaneynya, at their winter camp on the tundra. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

A TV satellite dish at Nenets fishermen's camp on the tundra by the Yuribey River. Gyda, Tazovsky Region, Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Russia

At a Nenets reindeer herders' summer camp, five year old Angelina Laptander, plays with 'Timulka,' her favourite Avka (pet reindeer). Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

Albina Kuleshova, a Mansi woman, wearing traditional dress, photographed in the museum at Sosva, Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia

An eroded bank on the shoreline at Sireniki reveals different cultural layers of bones and artefacts dating back 2,500 years to the ancestors of today's Yupik Eskimos. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region, Chukotka, Russian Far East.

Welders working at a construction site near Sabetta in the South Tambey gas field. Yamal Peninsula, NW Siberia, Russia

At the start of the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer,' Tamara builds up a ritual fire with dried Arctic Bell Heather. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.

Rear view of traditional Khanty women's reindeer skin boot. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A log cabin at a Selkup summer camp in the forest. Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Boreal forest (taiga) on either side of a winter road between Ratta and Tolka in Krasnoselkup. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia. (2012)

Jakov Vanuito, a Nenets reindeer herder leads two of his draught as he sets out to check on his herd at their winter pasures near Tambey. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia

A horse & sled being used to transport firewood for the winter in the Khanty village of Yamgort on the Synya River. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

An Even woman outside her yurt at a camp near Khailino. Koryakia, Kamchatka, Siberia, Russia. 1999

During a traditional Chukchi ritual sacred objects are placed on a child's sled while two idols stand in the snow against the front runners. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010

Ljuda, a young Khanty girl, wearing a traditioanal dress in a hut at a fishing camp on the River Ob. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Piotr Laptander, a Nenets reindeer herder, repairing a sled before the Spring migration. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

A snow covered wooden house in winter in the Nenets village of Nahodka. Gydan Peninsula, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Mira Khudi, a Nenets woman, sewing a pair of boots in her reindeer skin tent at winter pastures. Yamal, NW Siberia, Russia

A reindeer calf suckles its mother at summer pastures in Piltun Bay which are now threatened by oil/gas development. Sakhalin Island, Russian far East. 2006

Even reindeer herders unload supplies from a Ural truck at their winter camp. Northern Evensk, Magadan Region, E. Siberia, Russia. 2006

Hunters' huts and boats at Dezhnovka in the autumn. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004

Nadiya Asyandu, a Nganasan woman, dressed in traditional reindeer skin clothing at a camp on the Kheta river. Taymyr, Northern Siberia, Russia. 2004

A newborn reindeer calf with its mother on the Nadym Tundra in the Spring. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

Even yurt & autumn tundra by a river near Tilishki. Kamchatka. Siberia. Russia. 1999

Northern lights, Aurora borealis, over a Nenets reindeer herders camp. Yamal Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia

A worker in the nickel foundry at Norilsk. Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

Reindeer bull, Rangiferus tarandus with hoar frost on his antlers. Yamal. Siberia.