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WORDS & IMAGES: YICHEN ZHOU<\/h6>\n\n\n\n


For her series “Where the Wind Blows,” first published in our Unwoven zine, photographer Yichen Zhou visited three Mongolian sheepherder families in Mandula Town to explore the ecosystem behind nomadic wool production, documenting how these traditions are changing over time.<\/em>

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\u201cWhere the Wind Blows\u201d uses wool as its point of origin. I visited three sheepherder families in Mandula Town, at the border between Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China, and Mongolia.\u2028What was once a single nation is now divided by a national borderline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the development of the modern economy and new grazing techniques, the herdsmen that I photographed in Inner Mongolia had gradually given up their nomadic yurts and adjusted to \u201cmodern grazing\u201d \u2013 moving into mud houses or brick homes with solar energy and high-speed internet. Now, they use motorcycles to herd their animals, monitoring equipment covers the entire grassland,\u2028and their mobile phones let them find their flocks at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yet in the homes of each family that I visited, wool-related items were found in abundance. There were wool scarves, rugs, blankets, unfinished sweaters, a beloved lamb, and of course, their flocks.\u2028I used these objects as backdrops to take their portraits. I crafted the cyanotypes, contact printing grass, sheep manure, and wool\u2028in a way that contains the traces of time. I embroidered traditional Mongolian costumes on their pictures.

Through these objects and actions, I seek to show the entire ecosystem behind wool and find a pause between modern and traditional Mongolian culture that stops the loss of yesterday\u2019s ways. With so much in flux, the only constant is the wind blowing across the grassland and the enduring prevalence of this material in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yichen Zhou was the winner of our 2022 photography competition<\/a> with Magnum Photos, which called on photographers to explore the visual stories that take place when fibers and materials are cultivated, created, spun, woven, sewn, loved and cherished \u2013 gaining cultural and emotional significance through the journey<\/em>.

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