Koti

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Sunday, September 19, 2010 | 5 photos

Koti is the finnish word for home, a warm and comfortable place where go back, especcially when outside temperature is minus 20.
In the upper part of Finland there is a wide land inhabited by wild animals and a small population that since 50 years ago was nomadic.
they are the Sami people, they still live in a deep contact with nature, respecting it as a religion and living followinf the rhythm rhyth of the seasons.
In some part the population is the 0.8% per square mile.
Sami people live farming and handicraft.
For a long period they were victim of discrimination, now they are fighting to promote their own culture, language and traditions.