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Seeing Tibet
In 2007/2008 I lived in Lhasa and Xining. I studied Tibetan language at Tibet University and carried out fieldwork for my PhD on the industry of Tibetan medicine. Seeing Tibet is a reflection on my efforts to capture what I saw and tried to understand – a world very different from the world of monks, monasteries, pilgrims and prayer flags as which Tibet is so often depicted. This is where the idea to [ the other image ] was born.
04 September 2012
Look, Tibet!
The Friendship Highway, Chinese students, and an exhibition in Singapore.
15 May 2012
New Heritage
Business men, window-shopping monks, and visions of a prosperous and peaceful Lhasa.
02 May 2012
Past Nobility
The houses of Lhasa’s erstwhile aristocracy as relics of a socialist past.
25 April 2012
Whiten Drepung
Snow and the absence of red robed monks in what used to be the world’s biggest monastery.
02 April 2012
The Long Lens
Today, there is no shortage of images from the Land of Snows. Yet, their scope has remained astonishingly narrow.
28 March 2012
Red Banners and Demons
“Everyone protect cultural heritage and share the fruits of its protection!” – Propaganda, yes. But to whom is it addressed?
22 March 2012
Norway for Namtso
An invitation by the Tibet Tourism Bureau to visit Namtso turns out to be full of surprises.
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