Join this photographic journey through some of Russia’s most pristine arctic landscapes and the local culture of migratory Reindeer Herders that you have only seen in magazines.

At this time of year, the mountain peaks are snow-covered, and the shallow waters of Lake Baikal are forming thick, reflective ice that gets polished like a mirror—perfect for photography!

We will put you in the right place at the right time to experience the bright sun, fantastic ice statues, and beautiful formations of ice. With the sun shining brightly, the daytime temperature will rise above freezing almost every day—but the ice on Baikal will still be hard and clear. We will have morning and night photo sessions in crystal hummocks by the most beautiful islands on the lake.

From here, we will switch gears and move onto the second part of our workshop, the reindeer herders. We will immerse you in an ancient nomadic culture of the Siberian Arctic. We’ll be staying in the winter camps of Nenets, the nomadic people of “Yamal,” the Nanet word for ‘the edge of the world.’

There are few places as enchantingly remote as the Yamal Peninsula, deep in Siberia’s isolated Arctic region. The Nenets of Yamal have created a unique way of life. Each spring, they migrate from winter pastures on the Russian mainland to the summer pastures in the Arctic Circle, a journey of up to 1,000 kilometers.

This is your chance to experience a small part of this epic journey alongside these extraordinarily resilient people. Together with our hosts, we will eat traditional dishes, predominantly venison, fish, and taiga berries. Of course, there will be more familiar menus available as well. We will rest in sleeping bags, inside a traditional Chum. At night our hosts will run a generator to recharge our camera and computer batteries.

Is this workshop for you? If you like remote, exciting travel, beautiful ice, caves, grottos, northern lights, and immersion in the local culture of one of the last great nomadic people on earth—then yes! If you can handle cold weather, long days and nights of shooting, and living with and photographing the reindeer herders as they do their migration, then yes!

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