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View fullsize It’s all about you, it’s all for you. . I only have three photos of my father when he was young. He was born in 1933, the 3rd of 11 children, in Kham which is in the East of Tibet, now the Qinghai province of China. . This is him aged 1
View fullsize It’s rare that I turn the lens on myself but I was honoured to be asked by Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey from @kettlesyard to respond to 3 questions about these times. Head to the @kettlesyard IGTV for the full video. . . . . . . . . . . #Kettles
View fullsize The tournament was ace but it was the crowd that made it for me. The whoops as hoops were sunk and the teasing banter as people cheered their friends on. My friend was the editor of a basketball magazine at the time and it was his voice in my head t
View fullsize Game ready. The blue team had a rich sponsor who’d bought them a new matching kit, headbands and trainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Yushu #Jyeckundo #Qinghai #Kham #Khampa #Tibet #China #Hasselblad #Film #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #Pho
View fullsize The Air Up There! The Khampas are really into Basketball. I think it’s another hangover from when the Chinese army were there, as they set up courts to play. . . . . . . . . . . . . #Yushu #Jyeckundo #Qinghai #Kham #Tibet #China #Hasselblad #Fi
View fullsize As the Chinese economy booms as does the demand for ‘bu’. They have become a status symbol among China’s rich and, depending on their size, colour and firmness, can easily be priced at more than double their weight in gold. With my
View fullsize Some years ‘bu’ are worth more by weight than gold. The whole family harvest it. Children, being short and with their sharp eyes, are often the best pickers. Local schools, helpless against the lure, close for a one-month harvesting holid
View fullsize Deals were going down. YARTSA GUNBU དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ་ The literal translation is, ‘winter worm, summer grass’ yet it is technically neither a grass or a worm. Ophiocordyceps sinensis, found in the high-altitude pastures of the Tibetan Pl
View fullsize Wow what a response! Thank you so much for all of your messages today. Here is my last offering for the #artistsupportpledge. Full moon, After the Earthquake, 2010 Each print is signed, stamped and numbered on the reverse and are part of a limited
View fullsize I’m joining the #artistsupportpledge and have released 3 limited edition prints. DM or email for more details. Tulku Ngodrüp, 2014 Each print is signed, stamped and numbered on the reverse and is part of a limited edition of 100. A 10&rd
View fullsize I’m joining the #artistsupportpledge and have released 3 limited edition prints. DM or email for more details. Lhamo Tsertso & Lobsang Chödron, 2016. Each print is signed, stamped and numbered on the reverse and are part of a limited
View fullsize I had to post just one more diamond from my shelves for the #dmbphotobookchallenge. Cui Cui has a special place in my heart as @rinkokawauchi so perfectly captures the ‘memories of (her) family which she has been shooting for 13 years’. .
View fullsize What do you do when you can’t shoot film? Dig out some out of date polaroid. What do you do when you can’t go out to shoot? Look inwards, focus on what’s in front of you. Evening light on evening light. . . . . . . . . . . . #ICPC
View fullsize Loved looking through my shelves at the photobooks I never usually have time to enjoy but how can I choose just ONE favourite @sipkevisser?! . I saw the 51 Years show at the @mao_gallery with my mum nearly 20 years ago and it blew my mind. David Gold
View fullsize Family and friends are so important at a time like this yet, when we are in most need of that human contact, Covid 19 has physically driven a wedge between us. When I’m in Kham there’s always a cousin or friend entertaining the kids, loo
View fullsize I call this ‘One sock on, one sock off Lama’ to myself but it should have a proper title really. Tulku Ngodrüp was recognised as the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist teacher aged 7. He came to live in our family home as my cousin
View fullsize Three boys in their school uniforms on the Rongbo Plateau. They lean against the doorway of their family’s new house, built by the government after the earthquake of 2010. I’ve been thinking about how this time of self isolation will eff