Freeing the fish
Subtitle: progress and impermanence in modern-day Tibet
By: photos by Marieke ten Wolde
Publisher: Low Light Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: The Netherlands
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789491800009
Subjects: Pictorial works; Social life and customs; Documentary photography
Description: If the Tibetans in Lhasa do not eat fish, why do they buy large quantities of fish at the market? Why are so many new monasteries being built? How does climate change affect the nomads and farmers? Why are the remote control lights on the TV's covered off? Why do young Tibetans look down on karaoke? With her beautiful and poetic photography and stories, Marieke ten Wolde sketches the life of the ordinary Tibetan, investigating questions about how climate change impacts the lives of nomads and farmers alike, or why so many new monasteries are being built. Ten Wolde spent the last decade documenting the accelerating pace of change and modernisation of Tibetan lands within China. In that time, many places were altered beyond recognition as people resettled, infrastructure expanded and mining complexes and hydroelectric dams sprang up. Brimming with superb photos and insightful texts, the book offers deep insight into a complex society forever in motion.