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 collection of four 11x14 prints from the project.
This is a portfolio of four 11"x14" prints. These prints are editioned as a group and will be shipped together.
These prints were selected from the the artist's project Travels Without Maps, which explores China's far Western frontiers.
All the prints were made with archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish.
Links to the other individual editions which are available in other sizes:
Kids at Play, Dusk, Kashgar
Street Market, Kashgar
Logging Camp, Kham
Red Truck on the Back Road to Manigango
These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish.
Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists' originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.
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