This is my father’s camera which he used to take photos of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, I am standing in the same spot as him (photo taken by Pazu in October 2013).
Snow on the mountain top… I know that Lhasa is not only about the Potala Palace and that one should not only take photos of the Potala, but I still cannot bring myself to adjust my lens and angle, also capturing the chaotic rest… So this is the result, the further one raises one’s vision, the more I enjoy it; the rest (which is the large part) I more or less intentionally decide not to see. I know that this is a biased vision… #lhasa
In the early evening, I arrived here and encountered this brand new ruin, listening to “The Future of Nostalgia” (I have read this book at least three times). About the “restoration” of Moscow in the 1990s, the author writes: ““So does the Park of Arts preserve memories or conduct a new kind of damnatio memoriae by restoration, rather than physical destruction?” (It needs to be said that, as the image reveals, it is precisely “physical destruction”).
In the early evening yesterday, in front of the Jokhang Temple, I saw this girl in shorts, carrying a kid to take photos. Her naked legs were quite provocative. I heard her saying that she wanted to prostrate. So the guy took the child while she joined the ladies sitting on the ground, imitating a prostrating posture. But she was rejected: “You can’t prostrate wearing these clothes.” The girl said: doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter, I am not afraid. So another Tibetan woman said more directly: “You have to wear trousers.” You could suddenly see the embarrassment on her face: Oh, I forgot to wear trousers. Then, both of them left the scene.
I heard a pigeon and as I turned my head, it seemed as if they wanted to snatch the food that I had put out for them. I immediately captured the scene, but both pigeons merely looked at the bowl and proudly flew off.
I heard a pigeon and as I turned my head, it seemed as if they wanted to snatch the food that I had put out for them. I immediately captured the scene, but both pigeons merely looked at the bowl and proudly flew off.
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