Potala Palace - Lhasa, Tibet

Potala Palace - Lhasa, Tibet

Photo by: Mike Yamashita

Mike Yamashita

Photographer

Mike Yamashita’s photographs embody both the rich, Tibetan culture as well as the rapidly changing face of the area since the Chinese invasion in 1950. His photographs, taken over a period of fifteen years, may well be among the last images of Tibet to be captured by a foreigner, as Tibetan travel for non-Chinese has been radically curtailed by the Chinese authorities. Yamashita’s work offers a record of a way of life that has flourished in the rarefied heights of the Himalayas for centuries but is now threatened with extinction; it is a chance to see this world before the legends and mysteries of the Tea Horse Road disappear into the Tibetan mist.

Photo © Ira Block

As of October 26, 2014

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