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Mongolia

Photographs and writing from Mongolia — the steppe, the Kazakh eagle hunters of the west, and the 2023 papal visit to Ulaanbaatar.

Travel 7 October 2024

The day after the festival

The Golden Eagle Festival in western Mongolia is a performance, photographed by hundreds of people at once. Two days later, with one family on a ridge, the same thing was just work. The second day made the better pictures.

Events 15 September 2023

Close enough to be looked at

In September 2023 the CICM priests in Mongolia asked me to come and help document a papal visit — the first any pope had made to that country. I went with a media pass and a job to do. I came home and asked to be baptised.

Something in mind?

If a picture here is close to what you are after, say so and say what for. Alvin will tell you plainly whether it is work he can do well.

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