Man with Fire
A man in Guanxi Province sits by the fire in his kitchen while heating water for tea.
Prayer Lamps
Tibetan prayer lamps light the interior courtyard of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, one of Tibet's most sacred sites. Thousands of pilgrims travel across Tibet to visit and circumambulate the Jokhang each year.
Mountain Road
Sheep graze near a winding road in the Tien Shan Mountain range between Ili and Zhaosu in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, China.
Morning Smile
A Kazak girl pauses with a smile during morning chores.
Over a million ethnic Kazaks currently live in China. Thousands fled east to China in order to escape Russian collectivization in the 1920's and 30's. The Chinese Communist Revolution brought renewed threats to the Kazak way of life. I was inspired to see how, despite years of political struggle and pressures to assimilate, Kazak people living in the grasslands of Northwestern China continue to find ways to keep their language and cultural traditions alive.
Wild Land
Two horses stand in a milky blue glacial stream in the mountains south of Zhaosu, China near the Kazakh border.
Door to Exile
The rear gate of Jiayuguan Fort at the end the Great Wall. Chinese exiles, soldiers, and trading caravans would pass through these gates heading westward, into the the Gobi Desert and through the territory surrounding the Taklamakan Desert. Historically, the Chinese have thought of the traditional inhabitants of this region as “barbarians”.
Lake Titicaca Sailboat
An Uros man uses a tarp for a sail on Lake Titicaca in Peru. The Uros people live on floating islands made of totora reeds that grow in the lake. The reeds are harvested as building material and as a food source.
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Stacey Irvin
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