Russia in the popular imagination is monolithic: uniformly Slavic, orthodox, gloomy, and bitterly cold – and Siberia especially so. My project undermines this narrative by presenting a more nuanced, complex, and, importantly, diverse reality: a multicultural Siberia that is also Buryati in culture and language; Buddhist, Tengrist, and syncretic in religion; radiant, warm, and vibrant in climate, with endless rolling steppes and the brilliant blue hues of Baikal. Famous for its superlative nature, my images of Siberia pay special attention to landscape and study the uneasy relationship between humans and their environment, symbolized especially by the simultaneous dependence on, and indeed worship of, nature, and the destructive human impact on the natural ecology of the region. These images were all made around Lake Baikal in the summer of 2017, shot digitally and on medium format film, and cover ground from Irkutsk to Olkhon to Barguzin to Ulan Ude.