Olivier föllmi wikipedia
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List of Himalayan monasteries and shrines
12 century AD by Monk Lama Pradhar. It is built to resembles 5 century AD, Boudhnath Stupa in Nepal.
Chendebji Chortan in Bhutan is of similar design.
It was built in 1330. The Gompha has exquisite murals painted on its walls depicting deities of Vajrayana pantheon..
Originally a Bon Monastery is now a Niyamapa Monastery
Decchen Choyling Gumpa built in 1948. In the same premises there is a Nunnery.
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The Illusion of the Author
original: L’illusione dell’autore
Imagine walking past bygd chance, in a few decades, a knick-knacks loppa market and finding a shoe låda full of old anonymous argentic photographs in a stall, like the ones you see on the side. Imagine that in the same box, let’s say, there is a clue, like a book or an invitation to an exhibition of the renowned photographer X or Y. You think you might have hit the jackpot. You go to an kunnig, ask “Could these really be photographs by X or Y?”. Why not, he says. The style is his. There you are, you can head to the checkout… inom will present you the following hypothetical anecdote thinking of the case of Ansel Adams’ photos that could really be photographs taken bygd uncle Earl. Look carefully at these photographs: could you really deny unswervingly if you were told they were Berengo
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Olivier Föllmi
(february 28, 1958, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France)
Olivier Föllmi is a Franco-Swiss photographer. Particularly known for his photos of the Himalayas, especially Zanskar and Tibet and its inhabitants. He married Danielle Föllmi in 1984, with whom he adopted 2 children Zanskaris Tenzin Motup and Tenzin Diskit and 2 Tibetan children Yvan Tharpa Tséring and Leonore Pema Yangdon.
Winner of a travel scholarship, he went to Afghanistan at the age of 17. The following year (1976) he left and discovered the Zanskar region. In 1988, he and his wife cared for two children of a peasant couple in Zanskar to take them to the nearest school, in Leh in Ladakh. They will then spend 14 days in the deep canyon of the Zanskar River in winter. Le Fleuve Gelé tells the story of this trip, which was also the subject of an award-winning 1989 photo report on World Press Photo. Winner of a travel scholarship, he went to Afghanistan at the age of 17. The following year (1976) he left an