Raul Gutierrez: new limited-edition photo print set released
Raul Gutierrez is one of my favorite photographers. I particularly love his images of Tibetan life, like the Kham logging camp above. I've traveled to some of the same places, and Raul's work captures these scenes in a different way than my eyes remember. He says:
For the past fifteen years, I have been making pilgrimages to the deserts and mountains of China's western borders, focusing on Tibetan and Uyghur communities. These remote frontier regions are laced with contested geographies where religious and cultural legacies confront powerful economic and political transformations.20x200 just released a collection of four 11x14 prints from his "Travels Without Maps" project. You can buy them as a set, or individually. Truly beautiful work. (thanks, Sara Distin)In these far away places, I look for way stations between cultures where one can see the past and future simultaneously. Seeing these changes over such a short time is a perspective that is at once disorienting and tragic. I try to make images that show these things, or at least some of the emotional truths behind them, because I know each time I return everything will be almost unrecognizable.
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Raul Gutierrez is very talented and creative photograher.
They must be smoking some goooood stuff in that tent; it's two feet off the ground! BT/DT d--8^*
And don't miss Raul's portfolio site.
There are also some nice 'before and after' pictures of Kham by an Australian photographer at this site:
http://drjosephrock.blogspot.com
For a moment I thought this was the same Gutierrez who made the apocalyticious photos of Chile's Chaiten volcano eruption. However, turns out that one's Carlos, not Raul.
Anyone know how to get UPI prints? Visions of the end of the world in my bedroom help me sleep.