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Taylor Weidman Photographer

Taylor Weidman is an award-winning documentary photographer and co-founder of the Vanishing Cultures Project. His work focuses primarily on the effects of modernization and human rights issues. His photographs are featured in three books on the traditions of indigenous cultures: Mustang: Lives and Landscapes of the Lost Tibetan Kingdom, Mongolia's Nomads: Life on the Steppe, and The Xikrin: Indigenous Life in a Changing Amazon.

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Photo Essay
Mongolia's Nomads

Mongolian pastoral herders make up one of the world’s last remaining nomadic cultures.

by Taylor Weidman
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Photo Essay
Mustang: Lives and Landscape of the Lost Tibetan Kingdom
Photographer Taylor Weidman reveals the traditions of a lost Tibetan Kingdom.
by Taylor Weidman
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Modernizing Mustang: A Hidden Tibetan Kingdom Meets Its Future

Modernity is changing the lives of the Loba, a people living in an ethnically Tibetan enclave of northern Nepal.

by Nina Wegner with photography by Taylor Weidman
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Photo Essay
People of the Big Water

Learn about the Xikrin peoples of the Amazon Rainforest and the dam that is threatening their homes and subsistence lifestyle.

by Taylor Weidman
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On the Big Bend of the Xingu River

Meet fishermen of the Xingu River in Brazil who are struggling for their livelihoods due to the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.

by Nina Wegner with photography by Taylor Weidman
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Moken Sea Nomads

Learn about the Moken, a seafaring people who have been living on the Andaman Sea in Thailand for centuries.

by Taylor Weidman
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The Nepal Quake: Protecting Cultural Heritage

These photographs capture Nepal's efforts to protect irreplaceable cultural artifacts after the 8.7 magnitude earthquake in 2015.

by Taylor Weidman
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Photo Essay
Palm Oil in Myanmar

Learn about the human impacts of the palm oil industry in Myanmar. 
 

by Taylor Weidman
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Photo Essay
Mongolian Reindeer Herders Defend Traditions

Learn about the Dukha, traditional reindeer herders of Northern Mongolia.

by Taylor Weidman
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Photo Essay
The Aral Sea

These photographs document the resurgence of fish in the once nearly barren Aral Sea. 

by Taylor Weidman
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