Tibet Girl

Tibet Girl

I consider Asia my second home and I feel especially captivated by by the nomads of Tibet,an area I have visited numerous times over the last to decades.I fell drawn to those who live close to the land,documenting communities that my not last even another generation.

On this trip I was driving in the remote eastern region of Tibetan Plateau when I saw this young girl,part of a crowd returning from a horse festival. It was  pouring rain,so I brought her to a nearby school to take her photograph.She was so small that the light from the window barely reached her ; I had to stand her on a desk. Even at the age of four,she had a face that seemed to express the underlying sadness of a culture that has been so challenged.Yet she had a look of resilience and tenacity well beyond her years - Alison Wright
  

Mursi Man,Ethiopia

Mursi Man,Ethiopia

Omo River Valley, Ethiopia

Fisherman,United Arab Emirates

Fiserhman,United Arab Emirates

A special technique used for fishing in Fujairah,UAE,is called dahgwa.The net consists of two parts: a red part where fish are trying to escape and an open part near the coast with which they collect the fish.The white dots are birds waiting to collect some fish.

photograph by Shoayb Khattab

Norway's first lesbian pastor gives up

  Norway's first lesbian pastor gives up

Norway's first woman pastor to enter into a same-sex civil union quit her ministry to protest against the discrimination gays and lesbians face within the Lutheran Church,she said in an interview. "It has become untenable for me to represent a Church where parts of it are still quite exclusionary," Hilde Raastad told the daily aftenposten. In 1997,she become the first woman pastor in Norway to tie the knot in a civil partnership with another woman.Ten years later,the Church officially authorised the ordination of gays,but gave bishops and clerical authorities in charge of recruitment the right to refuse a ministry to a person living in a same-sex civil union.
  Raastad said she had been refused several positions even though she was sometimes the only candidate,and  said she had sent a letter to Oslo Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme asking him to annual her ordination.