Arkhangai Province, Mongolia, 2015.

This is Altein Beigeina a three year old Monolian boy who lives with his semi nomadic family in a Ger in the Arkhangai Province of central Mongolia. For a child, the first big celebration is the first haircut, usually at an age between three and five. Birthdays were not celebrated in the old times, but these days, birthday parties are popular. Wedding ceremonies traditionally include the hand-over of a new Ger to the marrying couple. Deceased relatives were usually put to rest in the open, where the corpses were eaten by animals and birds. Nowadays, corpses are usually buried. Mongolian boy 2015.

Landscape of western Mongolia, 2015.