Yakut twins, Magarass, Sakha Republic
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Yakut twins, Magarass, Sakha Republic

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Photograph

Simon Roberts

Maker
British, b. 1974

Yakut twins, Magarass, Sakha Republic

Yakut twins stand outside the school in Magarass, a traditional Yakut village. It has 220 students many of whom will move to Yakutsk, the nearest major city, to study at college and university. Few will return to Magarass and the surrounding villages,


where unemployment is high.


Motherland


November 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0054
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 140 +3 +0 +0 +0 140.tif (1) 10:23:42

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