Exotic Chukotka life through the eyes of Ida Taube (PHOTOS)

Russian photographer and artist Ida Taube has been living for 20 years in Chukotka, researching this remote mysterious land and national culture of the indigenous people. Ida took pictures of her friends - reindeer herders, hunters, walrus tusk carvers, craftsmen working with leather and fur. And her photographs depict how much she loves the resilient and strong people of Chukotka.

“These places hold ancient secrets of how a person can be in harmony with nature, with his neighbor and with himself,” Ida says. “Chukotka changes the angle of your perception of yourself and this world and reveals the depths of individuality.”

We took a closer look at how people live on this remote peninsula. 

A keepsake card

Ida Taube

Girls in furs

Ida Taube

Summer rain

Ida Taube

Lake Ravkergygytgyn (literally “clear lake”)

Ida Taube

Beringia National Park. Sea Hunters Festival

Ida Taube

Rockwell Kent style

Ida Taube

Getting frozen. -40°C at Kanchalan

Ida Taube

Whale Alley

Ida Taube

People of Chukotka. A young guard of ancestral Totem (L)

Ida Taube

‘Erakor’ reindeer breeders festival in Amguema

Ida Taube

Point of reference

Ida Taube

‘Smile of a fox’

Ida Taube

Soccer on the edge of the world

Ida Taube

Flowers of the Wrangel Island

Ida Taube

Chukotka youth

Ida Taube

Anadyr, capital of Chukotka

Ida Taube

The charm of the pristine nature of Beringia National Park

Ida Taube

Chukotka sun

Ida Taube

The ‘Chukotka. Point of reference’ exhibition is on display at the State Oriental Museum in Moscow from March 10 to April 3, 2022.

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