Inigo de Angulo, a photographer from Spain, also accompanied me on one of my trips to Tibet in May. It was such a pleasure to watch Inigo interact with the people as he shot and gave Polaroids to his subjects. Inigo has been working on a long term project documenting many religious practices around the… Read more »
At the beginning on the month the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. UN Women combines the resources of four previous branches of the UN that focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment and will be operational by January… Read more »
Over the years I have had many people ask me if they could assist me on one of my trips. I’ve never been too anxious to do so because I felt it would be too disruptive to have more “foreigners” than necessary show up in a remote village or at a nomad’s tent taking photos…. Read more »
Though paying and accepting dowry has been illegal in India for 40 years it is unfortunately still all to common. Strong enforcement of the Anti-Dowry Act, which has been around since 1961, doesn’t exist and bride burning and female infanticide remain a real problem for women and girls in various South Asian countries. According to an… Read more »
One of the things that amazed me as I traveled through what was formally Kham and Amdo on the Tibetan Plateau was the amount of new construction at many of the Tibetan Monasteries. It was not only the amount of new construction but the size and quality of the new monasteries and prayer halls that… Read more »
