Jeff Lautenberger is a freelance editorial and commercial photographer and videographer based in Houston, Texas. Prior to moving to Texas in the fall of 2018, Jeff lived in York, Pennsylvania, where he was a founding visual storytelling contributor for Our York Media, a digital media and branded content company.
This series of nine diptychs explores my interpretations of visual similarities and differences in modern Mongolia between traditional rural steppe and developing city environments. • According to the BBC, approximately 40% of the population live nomadically in traditional yurts, and 33% call the capital city of Ulaanbaatar home. Because of this urban-rural disparity and the country’s huge geographic size, Mongolia has the lowest population density of any sovereign state in the world. • Ulaanbaatar's rapid urbanization and a nationwide economy based on industry and natural resource extraction has led to a deteriorating environment, air pollution and deforestation.