Yamal, the edge of the world

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Photographer

martin patricio barrios
Date of Photograph

feb 2015
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http://www.martinbarrios.com.ar

Awards

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2012 Honorable Mention in Book FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2014 Nominee in Portrait PHOTOGRAPHER´S FORUM´S 34th ANNUAL SPRING PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST, BEST PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2014 Finalist INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015 Honorable Mention People : Culture INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015 Honorable Mention: Deeper Perspective INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015 Honorable Mention: Book INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Honorable Mention: Photojournalism / Story INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Honorable Mention People: Travel ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2015 Finalist Editorial _ Photo essay / Feature Story ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2015 Finalist People - Culture FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015/2016 Nominee in Travel INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS THE FAMILY OF MEN 2016 Mention Old Age, Professional INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016 Mention Self Published|Photo Essay and Feature Story|Deeper Perspective, Professional INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER IF THE YEAR Mention PHOTOJOURNALISM / STORY (AMATEUR) FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016/17 Nominee photojournalism ND AWARDS 2016 Honorable Mention - People - Travel / Culture INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 Honorable mention, Event: tradition and cultures INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 Honorable mention, Special: travel/tourism INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARS 2017 Honorable mention, People/culture FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017/2018 Nominee in Travel TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS 2017 Honorable mention People-Culture INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2018 Honorable mention, People/culture INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2019 Honorable mention, Book-Other INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2019 Honorable mention, Book-People ND AWARDS 2020 Honorable Mention - People - Travel / Culture ND AWARDES 2022 Honorable Mention - Special - Photojournalism / Story

Story

What mean these charming little people with cheerful clothes and funny animals compared to the millions of euros of the gas business?

For a couple of thousands of years the Nenets have moved their reindeer across the tundra.
They found a place to live where the temperature drops to -50 Â° C before anyone was interested in this part of the world before anyone knew that this part of the world existed.
But now there are those interested in the subsoil. Because there is gas in the ground, a lot of gas.
Now, the Nenets are probably at the limit of their existence as reindeer herders.
Surrounded by pipes, surrounded by the lure of modernity they are at the limit of the possibilities of existence of their identity.
They resist this clash, which seems natural, at least from the perspective of the West, with amazing dignity, with enviable pride.
At the edge of the world, in an icy universe, they insist on their right to be that they have always been: reindeer herders.

Perhaps the gas business will destroy forever those hard and kind people that for centuries have found a wonderful reason to live where we only see white, where we only feel cold.
Maybe not, then these pictures will be not part of the taxonomy of the extinguish but rather the memory of have been with a wonderful people.