Nomad by Jeroen Toirkens
Jeroen Toirkens' new book titled "Nomad" catapults us into the raw reality of life and survival as it is lived by nomadic Asian, Dukha, Artic and Inuit peoples. Toirkens creates photographs that crystallize a mood like the weathered face of a Dukha woman, a Dukha child handling reindeer and the exuberant joy on a Khalkh Mongol boy's face.
These pictures are not idealized cliches of nomadic existence, they are well balanced statements that capture the modern hybrid of nomad life where the most basic machine technology meshes with the ancient steppe nomad and Inuit's inherent commodities of strength, dynamism and flexibility in the face of Nature's wrath.
A quintessential Toirken image capture a Mongol teenage girl bestride a motorbike looking back at what? the distant past? the changes looming on the horizon? or something urgently calling to her before she leave the present and moves towards a new future? At her feet lie the basic essentials for survival on the ancient steppe; containers of milk, water and gasoline.
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