Tibetan-born, British artist Gonkar Gyatso just finished a residency at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.
And his work is currently on view there. In the exhibit, “Family Album,” Gyatso documents his family who reside in Tibet’s capital Lhasa. But the photographs look like images you’d find in a fashion magazine. Family members pose in a mix of their traditional ensembles, featuring elegant chubas passed down from generation to generation, and their work and everyday clothes, from Dior purses to soccer cleats.
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