Born in 1978 in Russia, Nataliya Kharlamova graduated from the Moscow State University’s School of Journalism in 2002. She was the student of Alexander Lapin, photographer and photography theorist. She worked as a photo editor and a photo researcher. Since 2009, she engaged in her own documentary photo projects. In 2017, she graduated from the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theater. She directed two documentary films: Camp on the Wind’s Road (2018) and Pastorale (2019).
After the death of her father, twenty-five-year-old Belekmaa settles down with the shepherds on her father’s remote farm. She assumes his position and hopes to see him again, if only in her dreams, before the day comes, when according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased would be fed for the last time and then ultimately bid farewell.
After the death of her father, twenty-five-year-old Belekmaa settles down with the shepherds on her father’s remote farm. She assumes his position and hopes to see him again, if only in her dreams, before the day comes, when according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased would be fed for the last time and then ultimately bid farewell.