Hamid Sardar Afkhami is a photographer who toured Tibet and Nepal for his photography project. He also visited Mongolia with the goal to photograph the unique nomadic tribes who live alongside reindeer. A scholar of Tibetan and Mongolian languages, Afkhami has a Ph. D. from Harvard. His desire was to […]
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