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Bolshoi Kunaley

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Bolshoi Kunaley (2005)

Matthieu Paley

Limited edition of 30
Archival pigment print
Siberia
MP08

A herd of semi-wild Altaï horses, belonging to Old Believers, run through the snowy fields near Bolshoi Kunaley village. Old Believers, who are an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox church, mostly live in extremely isolated communities to which they fled centuries ago to avoid persecution.