Photos from the Field
In June 2024 I visited Ladakh (see also the photo essay by Sierra Gladfelter and Eben Yonetti) as a participant in a short program run by the Modern Tibetan Studies program at Columbia University focused on “rural green entrepreneurship.”
A photo essay by Sierra Gladfelter and Eben YonnettiA land of glaciated peaks and windswept valleys situated in the Himalayas’ vast rain shadow, Ladakh has long been home to a hearty people who devised complex systems of irrigation and agriculture
Photo essay by Mason Brown.Nubri is an ethnically Tibetan valley in Nepal’s Gorkha District. It runs parallel to the Tibetan border in the deep valley of the Budhi Gandhaki river between the Himalayan peaks of Manaslu and Serang Himal. Nubri’s four
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Photo essay by Emily Yeh. Mount Kailash, or Gang Rinpoche (Gangs rin po che), is associated with Mt. Meru, the axis mundi or center of the world, and is thus considered one of the world’s most sacred mountains. Four major rivers – the
Photo Essay by Emily Yeh. In July-August 2016, I was very fortunate to be able to join the Sacred Himalaya Initiative of the India-China Institute at The New School, in a trip through Humla to Mount Kailash. Led by Ashok Gurung, we were
Photo essay by Ariana MakiTraditional Bhutanese art—and the artists who created it—has remained markedly understudied in comparison to that of neighboring Tibet, Nepal, and India. To the field of Himalayan art history as a whole, Bhutanese art
Photo Essay by Emily YehKhawa Karpo (Kha ba dkar po), in the southeastern corner of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning what is now the boundary of Yunnan province and the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), is many things: one of the most sacred mountains
Photo Essay by Galen MurtonThis photo essay illustrates and contrasts the infrastructure and operations of three international border posts between Nepal and China. Located at Kodari-Zhangmu, Rasuwaghadi-Kyirong, and Neychung-Likse, these borders
Photo Essay by Sierra GladfelterClimate change is expected to express itself in South Asia in numerous ways, including through an increasingly unpredictable and more intense monsoon. Already, floods triggered by relentless rainfall, associated