Lebrang Monastery & Hutongs, China
I’ve been into photography since the age of 10 or so. I started off with my dad’s Pentax MX in the early 1980s which I still have today. I don’t have a specialist subject as such but I try to include some kind of human presence in the frame when I click the shutter – basically I am mostly interested in people and how they relate to their surroundings be it society, culture, history or the places they live in.
The pictures from the Labrang Monastery and Hutongs Nights series were made when I visited China in 2009. Although they were originally presented as two separate projects, what they have in common between them is that they feature people from two geographic extremes of China who are trying to preserve communities and an age-old way of life. When I was there I was touched by this and wanted to try and capture some of those moments.
The pictures from the Labrang Monastery and Hutongs Nights series were made when I visited China in 2009. Although they were originally presented as two separate projects, what they have in common between them is that they feature people from two geographic extremes of China who are trying to preserve communities and an age-old way of life. When I was there I was touched by this and wanted to try and capture some of those moments.
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