The Second Morin Khuur Festival Photo Book
The official photo book from the Second Morin Khuur Festival in the USA. The photo book has over 80 pages and almost 150 pictures. All the photos are taken and personally selected by the professional photographer Usukhbaatar Terbish.
Type: Hard Cover
Size: 11.25 in x 8.75 in
Usukhbaatar Terbish
He is one of the few Mongolian professional photo-journalists who takes political and social photography.
He was born in the Govi-Altai province of Mongolia in 1965. He graduated from Irkutsk State University in Russia in 1991 and New York Institute of Photography in the USA in 2005 as a photo-journalist.
His career started when his first photos were published in ”The Development of Altai”, ”The First Five Years”, and ”Truth of Pioneer” newspapers in 1977. Then he worked at “People's Right” newspaper publishing company as a photo-journalist and ”Photomon” agency as a director.
He was awarded a Mongolian journalists' prestigious prize named "The Best Photo-Journalist of the Year" in 1998 and 2000.
He published "Regards Croises", an individual photo album in 2000 which he later presented several times as a photo exhibition with French publisher Partik Barton in the cities of Montpellier, Marseille, Toulouse, and Lyon in France in 2003 and 2006.