Taken at the beginning of a private shamanic session near Ulaan Bataar. My driver, Tsolmon, was an apprentice of this shaman (meanwhile he became a shaman himself) and promised me he would intercede with the shaman to allow me photograph him. At the beginning he refused but after having spent a week through Mongolia with Tsolmon, upon our return he agreed to allow me in his parents´ home to witness a shamanic family session (his sessions are exclusively for his family).