by Tim Girvin | Nov 4, 2007 | Diary
Indian Journal How beauty, full — the people. i ask you: really, what could be better than watching — and photographing, the people? There’s nothing more fascinating for me — than the people. And in India, and surely in Bhutan, there’s...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 4, 2007 | Diary
Indian Journal It works. Somehow. It does. I’ve wondered about that idea about the collapse of some civilizational virtues; it all falls apart. But being in India — and at points, Bhutan, you see in a way how it works, even with power shedding, collapsed...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 4, 2007 | Diary
Beginning now. Just after 4.00am, here in Delhi. Haven’t picked up a new mail in several days — due to the annoying habit of this computer / emailing system wanting to rebuild every single mail from the last month. But, in about 24 hours, I’ll be...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 3, 2007 | Diary
Indian Journal In a way, these two images say something of what the opening of Delhi felt like for me — physically, emotionally. Hot, disconnected, out of focus — slightly poisonous. Dizzying and entirely disorienting. India(ns) 11.03 The character of...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 2, 2007 | Diary
She | 11.2 | Paro Dzongdrakha Gompa We see things, those remote places, and decide it’s worth climbing to them, exploring them. And if you look out there, to virtually any vista, there’s something tucked up there, attached in some precariously sited...
by Tim Girvin | Nov 2, 2007 | Diary
Blessings | His Holiness Je Khenpo On the day of our departing, there was a massive blessing ceremony by the one person whose relationship to the King of Bhutan is on an equal. This is His Holiness Je Khenpo. Arising early that morning, prepping to head out, there was...
