Nanna Heitmann Coal Mining. Mike Pallenberg is a supervisor. His main task is to attach a 550-pound drill - along with 6 to 8 other miners - so that it can worm up to 80 meters into the rock and drill holes. Ever (...)
y step has to be perfect, everyone has to rely on the other. A mistake can cost your life. Bottrop. Germany. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Prosper Haniel Coal Mine. Two miners smoke their cigarettes after work. Thousands have left the tight-knit community, tempered by toil, darkness, sweat and by obstacles. The youth retrain, while th (...)
e elderly go into early retirement at the age of 49. It is a special, sometimes not immediately recognizable cordiality that unites the people here. Bottrop. Germany. 2017. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann A small ferry boat is the only connection to the village of Old Believers. The Old Believers turned against the reforms of the Patriarch Nikon, who reformed from 1652 texts and rites of Russian Ort (...)
hodox worship. Therefore, many fled to the most remote areas of Russia. First from the Tsar, later from the Soviets. Along the upper reaches of the small Yenissei, there are many small villages of the Old Believers, which still try to live self-sufficient, far away from Western influences. Yenisei River. Erzhey. Russian. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Prosper Haniel Coal Mine. Miners gather together and smoke their last cigarette before their night shift begins. Underground any fire and electronics are prohibited. Underground workers sniff tobac (...)
co as substitute and also to clear the nose from the coal dust. Bottrop. Germany. 2017. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann RUSSIA. Yenisei River. Kyzyl. 2018. Yuri built his little hut on a dump so he can feed his 15 dogs with what he finds in the dump. Everything he owns he found on the rubbish dump. Inside it is dark (...)
. He has covered the small windows so that the hut does not heat up too much in the short but hot summer. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann The girl Vaselisa. Her parents are both deaf and dumb and the only unbelievers in a village that lives strictly by centuries-old rituals. Her only friend lives in the village of Sissim. The summer (...)
holidays over the Yenisei and a walk separates them from each other. "Once we're together again, we'll be holding hands all the time.“ Village of the Old Believers. Yenisei River. Erzhey. Russia. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann RUSSIA. Yenisei River. Kyzyl. 2018. While waiting for the bus, Dolgar Dmitrievna’s daughter is sleeping on her lap in the summer heat. In the summer temperatures in the Republic of Tuva climb to 50 (...)
degrees plus. In winter it goes down to minus 50 degrees. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Yuri in front of his self-built home. "I am a simple worker. Nothing keeps me in the city. All my friends are in the cemetery. Drugs or alcohol. Here the air is clear and not dirty from all the coa (...)
l dust in the air." Yenisei River. Kyzyl. Russian. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Evgenii with his rat Barclay in his apartment. Next year, he will move to the US for five months to earn enough money to own a car. After watching the movie Ratatouille, he immediately bought a rat (...)
at the pet store. Yenisei River. Krasnoyarsk. Russia. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Khuresh is a type of wrestling sport and the national sport of the Tuvan Republic, a partially recognized state in southern Siberia. No national festivity is celebrated without a khuresh match. The (...)
people of Tuva even create sagas and legends about their favorite athletes, ascribing supernatural qualities to them. In this picture, two young athletes are practicing khuresh: the fighter who first touches the ground with any part of his body except for his feet or hands, loses. Yenisei River. Kyzyl. Russia. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Biologist Nikolai Putinzov has the largest collection of insects and amphibians in the Tuva area. The biodiversity and water quality are under serious threat from Chinese companies mining gold in l (...)
arge quantities, managing the mercury in the Yenisei and clearing the forests and exporting them to China on a large scale. Yenisei River. Kyzyl. Russia. 2018. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos