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Matthieu Paley
Matthieu Paley (born in 1973 in Rouen, Normandy) is a French photographer. Following 15 years living in Asia, he now resides in Istanbul, Turkey.

Career as Photographer
Following a degree at Le Havre University on Trade with Asia and an internship in Jakarta, Indonesia, Paley went on to study Photography at the Parsons School of Design in New York (1996 to 1998). In 1998, he went on for a 3 months expedition, trekking east-west through Mongolia, from Ulan Bator to Bayan ölgii province. He moved to Skardu, in Northern Pakistan in 1999. To this day, Paley remained in this area on and off for over four years, working and traveling throughout the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India and Central Asia. While in the Karakoram and Pamir mountains, Paley worked on several project for the Aga Khan Foundation and the World Conservation Union. Paley is a regular contributor to Geo magazine. His images have also been widely published in National Geographic Adventure, Time, Intelligent Life, Outside, Discovery and Le Figaro among others. Paley's longest term project, is focused on the life and plight of the Afghan Kyrgyz of the Little Pamir, one of the remotest high altitude community in the world. Paley has lectured on this topic at the Royal Geographical Society and the Asia Society as well as at mountain festivals (Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Grand Bivouac Mountain festival, MountainFilm in Colorado) His images have been exhibited in galleries in Hong Kong, Paris and Munich.

Awards
- Winner of the Professional Grant of the "Festival de la Mer" ("Sea Festival") for his project on Nauru, the world's smallest Republic (2011) - Winner of Mountain Culture at the Mountain Culture and Environment Photography competition of the Banff Center (2009) - Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund for Humanitarian Photography, awarded by PDN (2009) - Cover and selected as part of the PDN "30 under 30" award (2002) - Winner for best Landscape Photography at the Banff Mountain Photography Competition, Canada (2002)

Books
Serko: across Siberia on one horse - Editions du Chêne (2006) Mongolie, La Route de l'Horizon - Editions de la Martinière (2010)