TITLE: XINALIQ

With houses of grey stone, and a population of a couple of thousand that speak their own unique language, the ancient village of Xinaliq is the highest village in Azerbaijan. Perched on a hill-top surrounded by mountains, with fog-choked streets, this one one of the most remote places I have traveled to.

AUTHOR: Nessim Stevenson (United Kingdom)

Nessim Stevenson is a British-Lebanese filmmaker and photographer raised in Beirut, where his passion for capturing the world around him first developed. After graduating from the University of Sussex with a BA media production in 2015, he moved to Mongolia for three months to work on short documentaries for NTV News, a local TV channel in Ulan Bator. Since then he's been traveling around the world, from remote islands in the South Pacific, to small villages in the mountains of Azerbaijan, working on photography and short documentary projects with What Took You So Long?, an international filmmaking collective. He's worked in over 25 countries, with clients ranging from large development agencies such as UNDP and USAID, to grassroots organisations like MakeSense, to the social media giant NowThis.