“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
Georges Braque
On a street in Lhasa, I saw a woman braiding another woman's long black hair—her eyes bright, magnetic, her smile disarming. I stopped to photograph them. “Where are you from?” the woman with the electric gaze asked. “Romania.” “Where is Romania?” “In Europe—Eastern Europe.” “Ah, Europe! That is far away,”...
The air is thin, the sun intense, and life vividly present in this Place of Gods. It is hard not to fall in love with Lhasa—and the best way is simply not to resist. The sounds, the flavours, the colours, the clear light in people’s...
From the top of Red Hill (Marpo Ri), the Potala Palace—the former winter residence of the Dalai Lamas—rises above the landscape of Lhasa. The structure seen today, with more than 1,000 rooms across 13 stories, was largely built in the latter half of the 17th...
Often called “The Roof of the World,” the Tibetan Plateau stretches vast and high across Central Asia. Covering more than 2.5 million square kilometers—about ten times the size of Romania—it rises to an average altitude exceeding 4,500 meters, making it the highest and largest plateau on Earth. After...
The Manla Water Reservoir Project is a large-scale infrastructure development in Shigatsu Prefecture, located on the Nianchu River, a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) River, which receives water from nearly 100 glaciers. It is a multi-purpose project that provides irrigation for more than 40.000 hectares...
