Desert Nomad | Yemen
Yemen
Inuit Girl on Hamlet Day | Gjoa Haven, King William Island, Nunavut, Canada
Frankincense Trader | Oman
Tattoos on the fingers of a local frankincense trader
Sgt Duncan Slater, Walking with the Wounded
Valeria Borrajo | Siberia
King William Island Gjoa Haven, Hamlet Day,
A real life Lowry appeared before my eyes. The day before had been ‘Hamlet Day’ in Nunavut, the tiniest of the Gjoa Haven Uqsuqtuuq Inuit conurbations. Nunavut means ‘lots of fat’ in reference to the abundance of sea mammals in the surrounding water. On this day, however, the ‘fat’ was in the form of dirty dollar notes. The local radio had broadcast that there was five hundred dollars buried beneath the sea ice and snow across the bay area and the whole town turned out for the treasure hunt. Ice fishing and hunting for seals and polar bears took a back seat for the day.
Field Research Assistant | Arctic Ocean
Cat nap | Eastern Pamirs, Kyrgyz Republic
Russian interpreter, Ramil, taking a cat nap on the foothills of the Zaalyskay Khrebet in the Eastern Pamirs
Qikiqtarjuaq (Big Island) | Baffin Island, Nunavut
River Niger, Mali
Omani Portrait
Resolute Bay, Canada
Preparing for Expedition, Punta Arenas Warehouse, Chile
Outdoorfood all the way for Ben Saunders' Trans-Antarctic Expedition attempt
Cape Verde
Puja Script, Padham, Zanskar, Northern India
Cape Verde football pitch
Polar Bear Alarm | Sredni Island, Siberia
A lone wolf sleeps outside Golymani weather station, the most Northerly habitation on the planet. The normally ferocious carnivore is used as an alarm to chase away polar bears should they approach the buildings and staff at the station. In this way, man and wolf co-exist to mutual advantage in this most inhospitable of climates.
Dudinka Airport Krasnoyarsk Eastern Siberia Russia
Dudinka Airport Krasnoyarsk Eastern Siberia Russia. This image is part of a series I shot while ‘marooned’ at Dudinka airport during a snow storm that lasted several days. Everyone working at the airport, pilots, staff, travellers, were all stranded unable to escape. It wasn’t long before food and drink ran out, and the only thing that was left on the shelves was dodgy bottled water, cheap vodka and small microwaveable meals that can only loosely be described as ‘food’. The kind of food that any self respecting and starving cat would have happily walked away from. The airport rapidly became a community of friendly strangers with nothing else in common except for the wish to leave. I was at the start of a huge adventure and this only added to it. Being a photographer trapped in an airport in this part of Siberia was golden opportunity before the expedition all the way across the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada started. I ventured outside several times to this point waiting for a single person to wander down the street. Two people wandered sometimes three or four, but I only wanted one person in the scene. I waited for hours over a few days outside freezing my bollocks off, whats left of them, for a lone person to wander. I could have asked one of my team mates to step into the frame but the authenticity and integrity of the image would have been lost. Finally it happened a man walked down the street hunkered down as far into his clothing as he could, and then dissapeared out of sight. I snapped only one frame as my wish to be back inside to be hungry and warm rather than hungry and cold had arrived.
Outdoor Gym | Cape Verde
Research Scientist | Arctic Ocean
Jibril's Smile | Mali
My interpretor, lovely man!
Jabrin Fort, Oman
Schumacher Island, Antarctica
Last Rays
Samilia
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Sunrise
Wolf at the Door
A lone wolf sleeps outside Golymani weather station, the most Northerly habitation on the planet. The normally ferocious carnivore is used as an alarm to chase away polar bears should they approach the buildings and staff at the station. In this way, man and wolf co-exist to mutual advantage in this most inhospitable of climates.
Pedestrian
Khatanga, Siberia
Joao Nunes de Souza and family
Jimmy Kulak, Resolute Bay, Canada
Stanzin, Padham, Zanskar, Northern India
