A Russian-born photographer has captured the startling simplicity and vibrancy of the Nenets—an ethnic group native to northern Arctic Russia—on his adventurous trip, during which he was allowed an intimate passage into their existence. Daniel Kordan, who lives in Tuscany, set out to visit the nomadic reindeer herders in April 2021. With an initial dream to see and capture their migration to the north, also known as the “Argish,” Kordan was fortunate to experience much more. He was invited to stay in a Nenets family tent for a week and found himself in the remote region of Yamal, a part of northern Russia steeped in tradition. “Yamal surprised me,” Kordan wrote in a Facebook post. “This trip was like diving several centuries back in time. It’s as if you find yourself out of time in the tundra among the mountains, snow, Nenets, and their deer.” In the language of the …