Family Ties in the Culture of Yunnan’s Ethnic Minorities

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date February 9, 2015
30 Comments on Family Ties in the Culture of Yunnan’s Ethnic Minorities

In my journeys into the remote villages of China’s Yunnan province, I was moved by the closeness of the older generation with the children of the tribe. Physical proximity seemed to be an easement factor relied upon in raising the children and arming them with needed confidence as they developed. Parents and grandparents went about their busy workdays with toddlers literally tied to their bodies in colorful embroidered sacks.

Something to consider in our modern world where gadgets are slowly taking the place of our warm human hugs.

Tags children, china, color, documentary, ethnic, family, grandparents, hugs, minority, parents, people, photography, portraits, ties, tradition, tribe, wamrth, yunnan

By ~mimo~

Photographer, Art searcher, Motion Designer, traveler.

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30 replies on “Family Ties in the Culture of Yunnan’s Ethnic Minorities”

Powerful series – it’s the eyes that do it for me 🙂

David.

Beautiful photos. I did a drawing of one of them, and i just wanted to show it to you: wp.me/p534TF-pE

[…] found a beautiful collection of photos by the photographer Mimo Khair today, of grandparents and their grandchildren in the Yunnan province of China. I had to draw it […]

I love the fact that you’ve focused on the people here. I think that the landscape is too often focused on wheb you can capture something much more meaningful when you photograph the people. I actually love these.