This is a magical place. It is a place where poets go in the winter to write. The clouds move so swiftly that you can not believe you are looking at the same scene second to second.
March 17, 1993 at 5:25 pm | Asia, China | No comment
The Stone Forest in Kunnming, China is a surreal forest landscape of stones and boulders. Without a map, you could be lost forever. The map I was given was on a printed linen handkerchief that was easily folded and retrieved. Had it been paper, it would have been shredded by the time I left the forest.
March 9, 1993 at 4:12 pm | Asia, China | No comment
The director of this Tibetan dance group was working to document the ethnic dances before the Chinese culture imposed on Tibet eliminated them from memory.
April 17, 1984 at 5:13 pm | Asia, Tibet | 1 comment
The kitchen was off limits. but I stood in the doorway as they turned their backs to me. The arrangement of everything was completely unknown to me from any kitchen I had seen before. I was mesmerized. It seemed that there were lots of steaming pots with porous pots on top. Fabric was laid on top to hold in the steam. Steam everywhere.
April 17, 1984 at 5:01 pm | Asia, Tibet | 2 comments
The modern buildings along with the Chinese traditional houseboats emphasized the dramatic changes occurring at the time… and continuing to this day. The technology moved so fast and so many were left behind.
March 31, 1984 at 3:36 pm | Asia | No comment
Privileged to go through the Potala Palace room by room, climbing ladders with years of yak butter on them. The smell was heavy and warm, for some it was overwhelming.
March 17, 1984 at 4:52 pm | Asia, Tibet | No comment
Leaving from Lhasa we traveled by bus over mountains at 19,000ft passing a bag of oxygen back and forth between the passengers to breathe intermittently. In this remote region we found a Buddhist religious order, the intellectuals.
March 17, 1984 at 4:32 pm | Asia, Tibet | No comment
This young girl is a prime example of the kind of detailed work they were hired for. Note how her arm rests on a bamboo stick to steady her hand.
March 9, 1984 at 4:10 pm | Asia, China | No comment
What struck me about this was the enormity of the job. The team effort required was astounding to see. The labor was cheaper than the technology.
