Alexander Khimushin is a Russian ethnographic photographer. He was born and raised in Yakutia, Siberia.[1] He currently lives in North Queensland, Australia.[2][3]

Khimushin has traveled to more than 90 countries[4] where he has photographed indigenous people for his World in Faces project and other projects on vanishing cultures.[5] His work has been compared to Steve McCurry and Jimmy Nelson.[6] He was invited by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to exhibit his work in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[7] Khimushin's visual anthropology investigates disappearing languages and cultures.[3][8]

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  1. ^ Kaffka, Ines (October 3, 2018). "Fotoreise: Die Welt in Gesichtern". Der Spiegel. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  2. ^ Street, Francesca (September 7, 2017). "'The World in Faces': Portraits of people across the world". CNN. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Printcev, Svetlana. "Alexander Khimushin is bringing the rarely seen peoples of Russia's Far East to the world, and doing his best to help preserve their quickly disappearing cultures". SBS Russian. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Nations, United. "The World In Faces". United Nations. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ "The faces of Siberia: incredible portraits of indigenous people in the world's coldest place". The Telegraph. October 9, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  6. ^ Hameed, Nada (May 26, 2017). "Preserving cultures with a camera". Arab News. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  7. ^ Stewart, Jessica. "Interview: Rare Portraits Immortalize Siberia's Indigenous People in Danger of Extinction". My Modern Net. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  8. ^ Smetanina, Svetlana (July 9, 2017). ""The World in Faces." Russian Photographer Preserves the Images of Vanishing Peoples". Russin Mir Foundation. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

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