Cat Vinton is an award-winning adventure and ethnographic photographer, wild hearted and a free spirit.
Cat has lived with some of the last remaining nomadic communities across the Himalaya, the Tibetan plateau, Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and Altai Mountains, the Arctic tundra and the Andaman Sea. Documenting their way of life and migration routes across hundreds of kilometers, in some of the wildest, most remote environments on the planet. Lives that are deeply interwoven with the rhythms and cycles of the natural world and migrating with the seasons. Treading lightly, taking only what they need, unencumbered by the trappings and comforts of a settled life.
As their way of life is increasingly threatened, Cat's images capture something of their way of knowing the world, both as a visual trace for the nomads themselves and to help bring their knowledge into focus. Knowledge that is more vital than ever. Exposure is perhaps the most powerful way to change people’s worldviews.
Cat has always been fascinated by the human spirit and our relationship with the natural world. She is dedicated to capturing the stories of lives bound to the land and the sea. Her own nomadic lifestyle allows her to spend deep time with indigenous communities across the globe, immersed in their ways of life.
Outside of her continuing lifetime work The Last of the Nomads – Cat has documented a myriad of other projects with artists, activists, filmmakers, explorers, initiatives and organisations across the world.
