Gallery: In the Arctic, School Portraits Are 50 Percent More Charming
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Sanatornaya Shkola No. 1 near Vorkuta looks drab from outside, but inside its festooned with colorful Nenets prints.
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A young Nenets girl wears traditional clothing for her portrait.
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A boy poses for his picture as a friend holds the strobe light.
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A miniature chum stands in the background of this portrait.
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A girl hugs an indigenous doll. The classroom is decorated in student artwork and reindeer antlers.
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Children peek out from a miniature chum.
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A boy holds up reindeer horns. Nenets have herded reindeer for centuries.
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A girl wears a traditional outfit in the classroom.
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A boy poses for his picture holding a traditional Nenets object.
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A boy holds a toy sled as two others illuminate him with strobes.
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Children participate in the picture-taking by holding the strobes.
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Two Nenets girls in traditional dresses pose for their portrait.
