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Photographer Spends Four Years With Remote Mountain Villagers Forced to Defend Their Livelihood From Wolves

Photographer Spends Four Years With Remote Mountain Villagers Forced to Defend Their Livelihood From Wolves

Split image: Left side shows a person in winter clothes with binoculars and a horse on snowy hills. Right side shows a family of five, including a woman with glasses and a rifle, sitting by a window in dim light.

In the winter of 2021, photographer Luke Oppenheimer traveled to the Tien Shan mountains of central Kyrgyzstan for what was meant to be a one-month assignment on wolves preying on livestock in Ottuk, a remote village of shepherds.

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