An Open Tibet: 1 / 30

1 of 30 from the Open Tibet series.

Above: Two young monks invite me into their living quarters at Drepung monastery west of Lhasa.

I'm posting a new photograph daily as part of a series of images from my travels in Tibet during August 2007. This is a series inspired by the recent protests both in and outside of Tibet. It is an attempt at making an elegant response to the inelegance of the Chinese government ruling in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

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