Hi Reddit, I’m Claire Thomas, an award-winning photojournalist and fine art photographer documenting culture, conflict, and the relationship between people, animals, and the land they call home.
Over the past decade, I’ve photographed stories across multiple countries including Iraq, Egypt, Ghana, and Mongolia for publications including National Geographic Traveller UK, The New York Times, Geographical Magazine, and The Sunday Times.
Between 2016 and 2019, I was based in Iraq documenting the war against ISIS and its aftermath. In recent years, my work has increasingly focused on long-term documentary projects exploring communities living in remote environments and evolving cultural traditions.
For the past several years, I’ve been travelling regularly to the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, where I’ve been documenting the lives of Kazakh eagle hunters and semi-nomadic herding families through all four seasons. My recent cover feature for Geographical Magazine explores this way of life, the deep bond between hunters and their golden eagles, and the realities of life in one of the coldest and most remote regions on Earth. The project is also the subject of my photo book, ALTAI: Hunters and Herders of Mongolia, published by Hemeria in Paris.
You can read the Geographical feature here: https://geographical.co.uk/news/inside-the-world-of-mongolias-eagle-hunters
You can also read my recent feature for Geographical Magazine on women accused of witchcraft in northern Ghana here:
https://geographical.co.uk/news/the-women-banished-as-witches-in-west-africa
Explore more of my work, stories, photography tours, and limited edition prints on my website: https://www.clairethomasphotography.com
More information about my photo book ALTAI can be found here: https://hemeria.com/en-en/products/altai-claire-thomas
Proof can be found here in a post from Geographical's official Instagram account here.
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