Tibetan monks plant trees to fight deforestation

Tibetan monks plant trees to fight deforestation

Tibetans describe the hills around their place of prayer as a once pristine area, an earthly paradise. But with occupation everything changed. Trees and timber have been exploited for years, wiping out entire forests. As of 18 April, though, the monks of the Dzogchen monastery, in the Sichuan region, along with the local Tibetan community, began

Out of Tibet. An intimate portrait of a decade in the lives of Tibetan refugees

Out of Tibet. An intimate portrait of a decade in the lives of Tibetan refugees

Out of Tibet is a lovingly compiled collection of photographs portraying members of the Tibetan diaspora around the world. It is fruit of over a decade’s work by Albertina d’Urso, an Italian photographer specialised in social and humanitarian reportages – including Welcome to Compton, snapshots of life in one of Los Angeles’s roughest neighbourhoods which won