Landing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, I felt a welcoming like never before, a sense of space and purpose. A visceral feeling, the awareness that my soul had returned.
I see now, it was me - time for myself, cut off from the outside world, with no wifi, no phone reception and no electricity I was able just to be. My mind didn’t wander, didn’t falter - I was present. With this omnipresence, I felt that deep connection to the environment, witnessing the sunset realising the futility of mans need to force and change.
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Waiting to board the Trans Mongolian Express, I asked if I could take a portrait of the driver, wandering to the front of the train I asked and gestured. He seemed to be very obliging, so I singled for him to come down as I set up next to the train. Instead, he ushered me up to the locomotive, I couldn’t believe my luck, I shot a couple of frames, and then we departed. I rode the first hour on the Trans Mongolian Express up front with the driver…
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