Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work – NYTimes.com

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Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change

A Yin’s reward for living in a village of gers has been the chance to record a vanishing way of life in China. Sim Chi Yin interviews him.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/mongolian-diptychs-tell-of-profound-change/

A Yin is documenting his home province of Inner Mongolia. He is a self-taught anthropologist-photographer who has made it his mission to record the last of the nomads there. The phenomenal changes he captures tell the broader story of China’s transformation. Mr. Yin was cited by the National Geographic All Roads Film Project in 2007. Sim Chi Yin, a photographer and writer based in Beijing, interviewed Mr. Yin for Lens.