Everything happens with a quiet solemnity, a quiet certitude, an unexplainable and seamless change from one day to the next. No-one asks, no-one issues orders, life is done, life follows exactly the hours of the day and the days of the season. Life is immediate, shifting between shoeing a horse, to killing a sheep. There's no ceremony, no posturing. They move with the sense of knowing, an understanding of the world they live in and their inscrutable faces bonded to a warming smile brutally hardened by an existence which is just short of survival. They are worldly and this is their world.

Mark Cator, Mongolia, 2017

Mark Cator, Mongolia, 2017

Mark Cator, Mongolia, 2017

Mark Cator, Mongolia, 2017