The Man in the Yellow Hat then brings George aboard a ship, informing him that he’ll be delivered to a zoo, and advising him to stay out of trouble. George is visibly distressed the text describes him as sad. The Man with the Yellow Hat captures George in the jungle and puts him in a bag. That night I read the first story to my daughter. The Curious George books seemed out of fashion once my daughter was old enough for them, when a friend passed on a “ Curious George and Friends” anthology with some ambivalence. The couple left the next morning porting some food, a little clothing, and the drawings for a children’s book about a perilously curious monkey. Hans somehow built two bicycles that night. They instead bought spare bicycle parts, which cost them as much as they had been paying for a month’s lodging at a nice hotel-the manic inflation of exodus. Hans and Margret tried out the tandem bike but realized that they couldn’t manage. The couple didn’t have a car none of the trains were running two million Parisians had already fled. The radio was announcing that the city would not be defended from the approaching Nazi army. When Mongolia comes to town runs until 28 April at the Hackney Picturehouse, where Forrest is also selling a book about her time in Mongolia.By the time Hans and Margret Rey went to the bicycle shop, the only one left was a bicycle built for two. It’s not a free person wandering around at will.” “And in the countryside, the word ‘nomad’ just means someone who moves their sheep from place to another. They are part of a traditional family system and it’s very settled. Yurts are the warmest homes for winter, so people tend to spend summers in a building they have created next to their yurt, on land that each Mongolian is freely allotted.įorrest said: “Mongolians have to be tough to live that way. There is no map or addresses in the district, so Forrest found her way around by using tall landmarks. “However, there is a problem with traffic because there is no traffic control at all and no pavements,” she adds.ĭespite the difficulties in getting access, she eventually spent time with a seamstress mother and hotel manager father, capturing life inside their home and outside in the district. She was warned by the Mongolians that the district was too dangerous but she was drawn to it by the questions she had.Īfter failing to get to know people in the Ger district through NGOs, she managed to befriend people working in her hostel who invited her to visit. “The government doesn’t want to connect the Ger district up to all the systems because that would be recognising it,” Forrest said. The community has a well, a rigged-up electricity supply, and makeshift toilets. This has led to hundreds of thousands of people taking their yurts to the city.ĭespite the lifestyle being so established, the government does not provide services like electricity, sanitation and water. The effects of climate change have increased the rates of these weather events, called dzuds. Mongolians are periodically hit with extreme winters that wipe out their agriculture. But it’s complicated because the people there are also climate refugees.” She said: “It’s like if you only covered an area of London via its soup kitchens. She said the main sources of information – NGOs that are based there and often have a charitable angle – skew our perception. But actually, the vast majority of the population lives there or in a yurt, but they all come into their professional jobs and pretend they don’t live there.”įorrest describes how, while we might think of this kind of settlement style as a shanty town, for many people it’s an established and preferable way of living. “They think, ‘Oh tourists won’t go there’. “That’s why it’s interesting, because they’re kind of in denial about the districts and pretending it doesn’t exist. “No-one wanted me to explore the Ger district,” Forrest explains. Her photography communicates how these age-old ways of living have adapted to modern city-worker norms, for the businessperson, the teacher or doctor. She decided to use her next trip to challenge the romantic notion of Mongolians as a nomadic, countryside-dwelling community. “Right in front of my eyes was this extraordinary site and it was impossible not to be curious about it.” During her first trip to Mongolia, Forrest was struck by the huge ring of yurts around the city.
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