THREATENED BY MODERNITY
When Markus is on the road, it's all about the habitats of our planet. The exceptional photographer travels to the most remote areas of the world and visits indigenous people groups whose habitats are threatened by the rapid expansion of the resource-wasting Western lifestyle and economic interests.
His expeditions have taken him through crisis-ridden South Sudan and he has visited the remote Omo Valley in Ethiopia's far south. In Southeast Asia, he explored Myanmar, long shielded from the West, and in Indonesia he photographed the Bajau people known as sea nomads.
Mauthe met people who have adapted perfectly to cold living conditions in Chukotka, the northeasternmost tip of Russia. In the largest tropical forest on earth, the Amazon in South America, the photographer witnessed a wide variety of living conditions of small groups of indigenous people. To this day, the lives of these people are often strongly connected with nature.
But in the globalized world, the influence of modernity now reaches to the far corners of the planet, so the lives of indigenous peoples are also undergoing major changes.