Boy at Wolf's Road, Kyrgyzstan

• Prize
• Photographer
  Theodore Kaye, United States
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Website
  http://www.theodorekaye.com

A boy at "Wolf's Road," a high-altitude shepherd settlement in the Tajik Pamirs.

Growing up in China, India and Indonesia, Theodore Kaye found a natural passion in photographing the world. While majoring in Film at Yale, he studied Uzbek and Farsi and then went to work as a newspaper editor and mountain guide in Central Asia before settling on a photo career. As a former staff photographer at Rhythms Monthly, a Chinese-language geographic magazine, he has covered stories in India, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, Japan, Ireland and Great Britain. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Associated Press, McSweeney's, the Asahi Shimbun and the National Film Board of Canada. He is currently pursuing personal projects in the Central Asian 'stans and Greater China.