Sacha

Through this project, Alexis Pazoumian documents the story of Sacha and his community of reindeer herders whose future is more than uncertain. Today reindeer herders are becoming fewer and fewer in number, isolation and Extreme temperatures make working conditions extremely difficult. The daily lives of these hunters are changing due to climate change: unpredictable weather, higher temperatures, 4°C in the last 40 years. Nomadic herders do not know these figures but are the first to observe environmental changes and the increase in temperature has dramatic consequences on their lives and their animals. "The Republic of Sakha, also called Yakutia is a federal republic of Russia located in the north-east of Siberia. The area of ​​Yakutia is five times larger than that of France for a population of one million inhabitants.