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.
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.
This is a new road, cutting across land that had, for centuries, been used communally by nomads for yak grazing. The road was scheduled to be paved, and on some stretches, fences will inevitably follow.
by Raul Gutierrez
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Jen's newsletterThis image is also available as part of the Travels Without Maps portfolio, comprised of 11" x 14" prints of all four images, presented in an archival portfolio folder. Produced in an edition of 30, the portfolios are priced at $300 each.
These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish.
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