Monday, January 28, 2019

'LITTLE TIBET'

"Homage to the Land of Many Passes"
Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar
January 25th-February 27th
2019
Born in Prague in 1945, Jaroslav Poncar lives in Cologne, where he was a professor in the Department of Imaging Sciences at the University of the Applied Sciences until his retirement in 2010. His photography travels have taken him to the Himalayas and Tibet, Central Asia, India, and Cambodia, and he was among the first Westerners permitted to travel to Ladakh after it was unexpectedly opened to foreign visitors in 1974. The present retrospective spans more than three decades, documenting the stunning beauty of Ladakh’s landscape, as well as its continued commitment to preserving its Buddhist culture .

Free but donations are welcome 

Tibet House Gallery
22 West 15th Street
NY NY
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  Ladakh is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent. Located in the western Himalayan disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir in far northern India. Ladakh is bordered by Tibet to the east, Pakistan to the west, Xinjiang, China to the north and Himachal Pradesh to the south. Ladakh often referred to as “Little Tibet” is a stunning area with a very unique and preserved culture. It is one of my favorite regions of the Himalaya. It is filled with amazing Himalaya mountain views, stunning alpine lakes, amazing treks and some of the friendliest people I have ever met! Not many travelers make it to this remote area.

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EXTENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS 
from "The Land Of Snows"
https://www.thelandofsnows.com/ladakh/
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Murals of Tibet
998 Signed copies-limited edition


A favorite painting in the permanent collection

sort-of Selfie #1

sort-of Selfie #2


Exhibition
https://tibethouse.us/ladakh-1974-2018/

2 comments:

Peggy McG said...

What an incredible exhibit! Thanks for sharing your rich, diverse life. I study all your links and am blessed I can learn so much from one person. Hope you are feeling better and your weather allows you to continue out for more treks around the city. If not, your pics out your windows are equally wonderful!

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

To take shelter in the sorta selfie in the coming storm