Kurgan

Ihk Oïgor valley, Altaï 2014

Bronze age sacrificial site

The bridge

Ovoo reaching for the sky on top of Hoh hotol pass, Huvsgul, 2014

The tallest tree is a bridge between earth and heaven

Khatuugiin the valiant

Altaï, 2014

7th century sentry of the Türk empire

Bronze moon

Altaï, 2014

Caravan of a night passing the bronze age

The king's jester

Altaï, 2014

He who laughs last laughs longest. Anthropomorphic statue of the Iron age

Sairin and Agui

Bayan Ulgii, 2014

Sairin and Agui were warriors made out of stone. Gneiss slab graves and altaïc megaliths circa 3500 years old

Bituugiin the wise

Altaï, 2014

Holding a ceremonial chalice. Anthropomorphic Türk of the blue empire ~ 7- 8th century AD

The uncompromising Mogoit

Altaï, 2014

Guardian of the Uyghur of the 8th century AD

Alkhamin the hunter

High in the Altaï, 2014

Of Kazakh origin, semi-nomad, Jalpak region

Tchigertei, just man

Sogoog area, Bayan Ulgii, 2014

Free man, adventurer, the Kazakh is possibly of Kereït origin, a tribe ruling Altaïc regions in the 11th century

The Longevity

Karakorum, 2007

The longevity dressed in her granite protective shell and blessed by a khadag. Circa 13th century AD

Natural archive made out of rock

Altaï, 2014

Hunting scene from the Paleolithic

The spirits' kingdom, masters of the earth and waters

Karakorum, 2007

Where worshippers embark on a cosmic journey back to their ancestors. Horse skulls offering

The spatial exploration

Zavkhan, March 2014

Nebulae, milky ways and colossal quasars are these wild horses that the nomads, wandering aimlessly, pursue in their nights and ride the time of a dream before the light of dawn unhorse them

The soul's shepherd

High in the Altaï, 2014

The soul's shepherd and guide of the mortals to the afterlife. Upper paleolithic, circa 12.000 years old

Heavenly body back from the milky way

Altaï, 2014

Heavenly body back from the milky way on which paleolithics recorded history dating back 14.000 years

The caravan of the dawn

Uvs province, Winter 2014

As naked as though it had just left the universe's womb, the earth has remained a virgin land, time has retired, there, set free from civilization, the nomad rejoins the fourth dimension

The quest

Mongol els desert, Zavkhan, winter 2014

On the waves of sand dunes in the mist of ages, the purity of snow and of eternity, a caravan searching for the pass to access millenniums and the land of their origin

Holy and virgin land

Yaruu, 2014

The Uyghur, wishing well...the travellers to another world. Close to a funeral site and several kereksur, 7th century AD

Wintry silk road

Uvs aïmak, 2014

The lost city

Bor Hyarin desert, 2014

The lost city was engulfed, according to the tale, nearby the black lake, under a sea of sand. A 1000 years later, the caravan passing above, across the middle ages

Hardship

Progressing over the sand dunes of Mongol Els desert, 2014

Hardship or the ascent of eras and of 20 miilennia

Chigertey the extraterrestrial

Jalangash mountain range 3570m, Altayn Tavan Bogd, 2014

Chigertey the extraterrestrial of the Turk empire, and stele from the bronze age

Jajaa the gallant

Malchin sum, Uvs, 2014

Jajaa the gallant who in his prime turned 65 enemies into balbal stones. Uyghur burial complex, ~ 9th century AD

The good shepherd

Uvs aïmak, 2011

The good shepherd of the virgin land

Timeless

Urt bulag mountain range and Mongol desert, alt 2600m, Zavkhan, 2014

Timeless and out of reach, travelling across the ages

Ruins

Ovchuun Uul range, 3575m, Altayn Tavan Bogd south, 2014

Everything is annihilated under the weight of millenniums; everything perishes and pass. There is only the time that lasts. Stupa and his tiny master of another planet that landed 1500 years ago

Wintry

Upper course of Hovd river, south of Dayan nuur, 2014

Water, mountain and sky, so pure powdered with snow. Grandiose nature you are all, we are nothing but men, impure

The pilgrimage

Jalt Uul mountain range, 3600m south of Altay soum, 2014

The pilgrimage toward eternity

The worshipping journey to the mountain Ovoo

Passing the Asgatyn davaa, 2900m, Zavkhan, 2014

Under favourable auspices of Tengri, the eternal blue sky

The Würm planet

Uvs province, Winter 2012

Crossing the Zavkhan river and moving west along the Sulin Adag desert

The nomad ancestor

Zagast pass, 2014

Horses and camels were first domesticated in Mongolia 2500 - 2600 yrs BC. A milestone and a gift of nature: without them, no transport, no herding, no conquest, no power, no nomads, just men wandering aimlessly on earth

The axis of the nomads' world

The ger on the steppe of Zalaa, north of Dorvoljin sum, Zavkhan, 2014

The axis of the nomads' world on which the forces of the universe, from nadir to zenith, transit

Power

Khanui valley, 2015

If that one is supposed to represent male character, then he was powerful. Scytho-siberian deer stone, Bronze age, ~ 1000 BC

The guide of the soul

Khanui valley, 2015

A 3.90 meters deer stone or ladder to climb to the sky, with either solar rays on top that could depict a cult to the sun, or circular earrings with, below and circling all the round, small holes probably symbolizing necklaces. Ceremonial and sacrifice complex dating back ~1500 BC

Paleo-ibex

Khar Yamaat, 2014

Born during a zodiacal twilight from the sun and moon rays marriage. Upper Paleolithic.

Paleo-meteorite

Altaï, 2014

Paleo-meteorite that brought the first animals in the Altaï

Grandeur of the universe

Upper Altaï valley, 2014

Burial mond or Kereksur whose soul has migrated to the cosmic world. Bronze age

The Kitan priest

Steppe of Daringanga, Sühkbataar, 2009

Man's belief is the impulse of his soul which conceives a transcendent ideal and, in order to reach it, tries to acquire forces beyond nature. Anthropomorphic statue, ~ 10th century AD