Mongolia is often approached as a place of epic scale and simplified narratives. Vast landscapes, nomadic traditions, spirituality, endurance. Yet the projects that truly endure are not those that confirm these expectations, but those that settle into long observation, shared experience, and sustained presence.
The five works do not attempt to define Mongolia or reduce it to a symbol. They move through it from different positions, aware that territory is not something to be explained, but lived.
Josef Buergi’s The migration of the eagle hunters documents one of the harshest cycles of Mongolian nomadic life: winter migration. His photographs follow eagle hunters and their communities as they move through frozen terrain, facing extreme cold and constant risk. There is no easy heroism. Hardship is balanced by solidarity, skill, and knowledge passed down through generations. Migration is presented not as an event, but as a condition, a way of inhabiting land through endurance and memory.