In this workshop we will photograph wild Arctic musk oxen, live in a family of reindeer-nomads in their hut made of reindeer skins. We will have a good chance to see the aurora above the endless tundra.

Our trip will begin right on the Arctic Circle in the city of Salekhard. Arriving on the morning flight, we will board a Trekol and take a trip to the inaccessible Gornokhadatinsky section of the Polar-Uralsky natural park. The road there will take 7-10 hours depending on the weather.

We will spend six days with a family of locals: Nenets reindeer herders. We will live with them in their hut, photograph their daily life, live amidst a herd of half-wild reindeer in the tundra. Together with our hosts, we will eat traditional dishes, predominantly venison, fish and taiga berries. Of course, there will be more familiar menus available as well. We will rest in sleeping bags, inside a traditional dwelling, and, at night, our hosts will run a generator to recharge our batteries.

We will learn how to harness the reindeer and ride them. At night we will watch the polar sky in the hope of photographing the northern lights, and every day (if weather permits) we will ride a snowmobile with attached sleds to the habitats of the musk oxen and photograph them.

There are not many places in Russia where you can see and photograph these majestic animals in the wild. Musk oxen were brought to the Yamal in 1997 where they were kept in an enclosure. Some of them have been released into the wild, but they still prefer to live near their relatives.

Morning of the seventh day, the same Trekol will pick us up, and by the evening we will be in Salekhard. After spending the night in a hotel, we will fly from Salekhard back home the following morning, getting lots of impressions and thousands of pictures with us.