Here is a selection of photos taken
in August 2007
in the province of Yunnan in China.
Photo description from top to bottom,
left to right:
1) Areas are being locked,
ready for demolition of old houses, Kunming
2) Former house owner sad about his house being destroyed,
Kunming
3) Working with a local model, Kunming
4) Working with a local model, Kunming
5) Man in Kunming's old quarter
6) Lijang at night
7) A basketball court at full moon, Lijang
8) A local woman in Dequin near Tibet
9) View into the 'Tiger Leaping Gorge'
10) The narrow gorge, which soon will disappear to a 5 section
dam project
11) A mountain chain in north western Yunnan
12) A dramatic turn of the Yangtze River near Benzilan
13) Working horse, Yunnan
14) A monk near Benzilan
15) Monk's warm robes in a monastry
16) Traditional Tibetan houses, close to Tibet
17) Prayer flags in the wind with Kawa Garbo (Meili snow mountain)
and glacier in the back
18) A man carving Tibetan 'good luck' letters into stones
19) Albano, dirty, with video cam and bicycle in the back,
some 20km away from Tibet
20) Mount Kawa Garbo (Meili) at sunset