National Geographic Photo of the Day: August 3rd of 2016

August 3, 2016

Lifting the Veil

Photograph by Jonathan Nyik Fui Tai, National Geographic Your Shot

A lacy veil of cigarette smoke encircles a man in Sarawak, one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. “I embarked on photography trips to inland Sarawak to seek out the native people [who] preserve their way of life,” Your Shot member Jonathan Nyik Fui Tai says. ”Many of the tribes have slowly [been] assimilated into modern society.”