Roads and Kingdoms magazine has published an interview with Laurent Zylberman, photographer of our new book, Tibet, the Last Cry.
“Our stance is that the situation in Tibet is a fixation for many foreigners who know little about it,” he says. “It’s always been portrayed as a black and white situation, someplace where there is no middle road. The usual point of view is ‘bad red Han Chinese’ versus ‘cool yellow hat monks’. Editors want to see more guns and the army beating up monks. Or, they want a nice coffee table book with colorful pictures. Somehow our balanced view was not radical enough for them. That’s why we resorted to a crowd-funding scheme to finance the books.”
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