Returning from work
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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Lhatse agricultural workers taking the wide mainstreet back to their homes in the evening
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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2009
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Street level
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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Smoking a cigarette by the side of the busy market mainstreet of Shigatse, Tibet.
The China's Tibet collection was featured on Tewfic el-Sawy's popular blog The Travel Photographer recently, I almost missed it but for the fact that I had googled my own name today after hearing a speaker at a Dublin protest also named Desmond Kavanagh and wondered whether he was more google-famous than me. Turns out he's not (woo!). This link was on the first page.
Its fairly exciting, I've had this blog bookmarked for years now, I decided to take a chance and send him an email a few weeks back and promply forgot about it. Nice to get a bit of recognition sometimes :)
now i just need to actually make some money from my photography...
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Uploaded on Nov 11, 2009
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Monk robes for sale in Tibet
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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apparently this is quite an inappropriate activity, but it sure sells! I don't think you can really blame the poor merchants, they're just trying to make a living.
The tall, caucasian mannequin seems not to be showing any particular shame also. He's even got a lovely twisty drawn-on moustache!
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Uploaded on Nov 8, 2009
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Video surveillence in Sera Monastery
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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Exactly what the title says it is. There are so many of these in the monasteries I would very much doubt any open area is unwatched.
Combined with the ridiculous military presence in the larger monasteries (not only were there pairs of armed soldiers patrolling there were even green trucks full of soldiers constantly driving around) its hard to see any revolt being even remotely succesful in Tibet, it would be as it has been in the past, a bloodbath.
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Uploaded on Nov 5, 2009
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Tourism in Tibet
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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It took me a while to work up the nerve to ask for a picture of these monks in the narrow alleys that the open courtyard of the Tashilhunpo monastery became on an August afternoon.
Huge buses full of Chinese tourists rolled in and covered every inch of available cobblestone, making it much harder for said tourists to take pictures of the monastery without revealing the sad fact that it had become a bloated tourist trap...
~also, please, if you have but a fleeting moment of your precious time that you can spare pop over to the metro photo competition website and cast a vote my way (linked to the google page because flickr doesnt like the actual url, its the first link), i have two pictures in the final of the people category, you can see theyre the ones with the username DesmondK, thanks!
I entered this particular competition last year and didnt get this far although my good friend Solarina was one of the Irish winners (and tbh i thought her picture was better than the one which went on to be overall winner!).
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Uploaded on Nov 3, 2009
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