Imaging Tibet

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About Imaging Tibet

The Mission of This Group
The mission of this group is to preserve Tibetan endangered cultural elements on the Tibetan Plateau and we recommend you to add your photos that related to Tibetan Culture. Our members will also join this group soon and we are creating a space for you to share your photos with Tibetan students, the members of Imaging Tibet. We only accept photos taken in Amdo, U-Tsang and Kham areas of Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC.

NOTE
All the photos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.



If you want to tag your photos in Tibetan and Chinese, here we have posted some common tags that the photographers use for Tibetan photos. If you want use more tags in Tibetan and Chinese, please post the words on the discussion board.
Nomad: འབྲོག་པ། 牧民
farmer: ཞིང་བ། 农民
Tibet: བོད། 西藏
Lhasa:ལྷ་ས། 拉萨
Amdo: ཨ་མདོ། 安多
Kham: ཁམས། 康
monk: གྲྭ་བ། 僧侣
Buddhism: སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས། 佛教
buddhist: སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས་པ། 佛教徒
monastery:དགོན་པ། 寺院
nun: ཇོ་མོ། 尼姑
snow mountain: གངས་རི། 雪山
Tibetan: བོད་པ། བོད་རིགས། 藏族人 藏族
School སློབ་གྲྭ། 学校
Student སློབ་མ། 学生
Qinghai མཚོ་སྔོན། 青海
Sichuan སི་ཁྲོན། 四川
Gansu ཀན་སུའུ། 甘肃
White conch shell དུང་དཀར།
Grassland རྩྭ་ཐང་། 草原


Look at this photo and see how this photograpger tag and caption his photos. Please follow the rules. Your photo should include geo-locations, dates and captions.







IMAGING TIBET – A participatory photography project for minority students (see: www.imagingtibet.org)
Mission statement
Through providing young minority photographers with training and access to professional development, we equip them with the skills to make high-quality image collections for the purposes of cultural preservation, development and social documentation. These capable photographers then provide other groups with specialized training, thus increasing their capacity to document local groups and issues for their own purposes.
By facilitating the increase of both individuals’ and groups’ capacity to utilize new communication technologies, we enable a greater variety of voices to be heard by local, national and global audiences.

Beginnings
The Imaging Tibet project began in 2007 when cameras donated in Australia were provided to students at Qinghai Normal University’s Nationalities’ Department. We started with an extra-curricular class of 12 students who made more than 3000 images that first summer on five digital cameras and seven film SLRs. The project expanded when Andrew Grant came on board the following semester (in September 2007) and procured more film cameras for project members, trained students on these cameras, and designed the project website (www.imagingtibet.org). These new project activities were established at the same time as the digital class was run.

Members and Activities
To date, the project has trained 52 students in four groups, more than half of whom are women (27 members). Students come from rural communities in four provinces (Qinghai, Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu) and although are primarily Tibetan, also include other ethnicities - Naxi, Namyi, Pumi and Mongguor. We will soon change the project name to reflect this ethnic diversity. In each semester block, two classes of students train on cameras before shooting, and returned students collate and archive their images using Adobe Lightroom. We currently have more than 10,000 images which we are in the process of organizing, metatagging and preparing for presentation.

Types of Photographs
Project members use their cameras to document a diverse array of local issues. Many choose to make records of both tangible and intangible heritage from their home communities; for example: nomad’s tools, threshing practices, or tsamba-making techniques. Other members make photo essays focusing on one specific issue, such as a woman’s daily routine, or the construction of a new lazi. Still other members prefer to document their efforts in grassroots development – from project planning and design to implementation and evaluation.