{"id":1101,"date":"2011-10-08T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2011-10-11T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:53:05","slug":"birth-of-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/birth-of-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Our book <strong><em>TIBET: Culture on the Edge<\/em><\/strong> was just released this week!!\u00a0\u00a0 I must say I\u2019m <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thrilled<\/span> with how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The idea for a second book on Tibet came quite by accident.\u00a0 ( My first book Tibetan Portrait was published 16 years ago.)\u00a0 In 2009 I had traveled to Lhasa to document the work of the US based organization OneHeart that was working to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality on the Tibetan Plateau.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1105\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/birth-of-a-book\/attachment\/3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My equipment in the bag on the left.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Unfortunately, because of the riots that had taken place in Tibet just before the 2008 Olympics China decided to shut down all foreign non-profit organizations in Tibet.\u00a0\u00a0 I arrived and soon learned I had nothing to do!\u00a0\u00a0 Since I was already there I decided to take a trek I had always wanted to do so I hired a guide and a couple of yaks and headed out.\u00a0\u00a0 Almost three years later I have a book in my hands!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/birth-of-a-book\/2-6\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s always tense crossing water. Yaks like to cool off by laying down in the water.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Birthing a photo book is definitely a labor of love.\u00a0 After spending eighteen months collecting the content I\u2019m usually faced with at least a year of postproduction editing, researching, writing and designing.\u00a0 In this case the process went ever so smooth thanks to my agent John Campbell who introduced me to a wonderful production team at Rizzoli.\u00a0 Most heartfelt thanks to Jim Muschett and Melissa Veronesi for editing and hassle free project management.\u00a0 I want to give special thanks to Susi Oberhelman for her beautiful design.\u00a0 It was so amazing that we all saw eye to eye 99% of the time.\u00a0 Truly a wonderful experience for me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our book TIBET: Culture on the Edge was just released this week!!\u00a0\u00a0 I must say I\u2019m thrilled with how it turned out. 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