honorable mention
Patrycja Pająk poland
title
Khinalug
Khinalug is the highest village in Azerbaijan and at the same time one of the highest situated villages in the Caucasus. The inhabitants here have kept their characteristic Khinalugian language - considered by many researchers as unrelated to other language groups.
Residents are mainly cattle breeders. The pictures show shepherds looking for their lost sheep. The idea of taking photos was to capture the everyday life of Khinalugian surrounded by an extraordinary nature, their still living tradition, before it goes down in history and will inevitably perish.
EDUCATION
2017 – still - Art & Design at Pedagogical University of Cracow (MFA)
2017 - sociology, exchange student at Jagiellonian University of Cracow
2014 – 2017 - sociology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (BA)
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entry description
Khinalug is one of the oldest places on Earth where people live - most likely for 5,000 years. The location high in the mountains at an altitude of 2300 m above sea level for centuries, until 1968 was associated with a total cutoff from the rest of Azerbaijan. For those who wanted to come here, Khinalug was a promise of adventure tempting unavailability and ethnic isolation of residents. Today, when it leads to the village only a half-gravel road, it attracts even more, appearing as a place that irretrievably nearing its end.Khinalug is the highest village in Azerbaijan and at the same time one of the highest situated villages in the Caucasus. The inhabitants here have kept their characteristic Khinalugian language - considered by many researchers as unrelated to other language groups.
Residents are mainly cattle breeders. The pictures show shepherds looking for their lost sheep. The idea of taking photos was to capture the everyday life of Khinalugian surrounded by an extraordinary nature, their still living tradition, before it goes down in history and will inevitably perish.
about the photographer
Patrycja Pająk (b. 1995 in Wodzislaw Slaski, Poland)EDUCATION
2017 – still - Art & Design at Pedagogical University of Cracow (MFA)
2017 - sociology, exchange student at Jagiellonian University of Cracow
2014 – 2017 - sociology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (BA)
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