“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
Georges Braque
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...
In this quiet, high valley, a single thread of melted snow slides down from the sacred mountains. Its clear flow breathes life into the land — a reminder that even the smallest movement of nature sustains everything. The settlement below, with its blue roofs aligned in...
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...
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,”...
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...
