The Staff of Life
Mongolia 2014
The white strips are wheat stubble. The crop had been recently harvested. The black strips are plowed land which has lain fallow this season and which will be planted for the next crop.
Life on the Steppes of Asia
A lone herder grazes his herd of cashmere goats. This is the essence of life in Mongolia, but jobs are in the city and this ancient tradition is fast disappearing.