Every year I make it down to our local mosque to shoot the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid. One of the things I love about my job is I get to educate western photographers on the cultural makeup of western China. Most think it’s only Tibetans, however, there are huge (really huge)…
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The Chinese Muslim culture of western China is fantastic. The people and culture are really a unique junxtapostion of Chinese culture and bits of Middle Eastern Islamic culture. I absolutely love photographing it – if not for the simple fact that very few people know this mix of cultures exists. It’s vibrant and unique and…
(Download the August wallpaper here) Most people don’t realize that huge amounts of Muslims in western China. In fact, a third of the city I live in, if not more, is Chinese Muslim and has been for a very long time. In just this province alone it’s suggested that there are over 800,000 Chinese Muslims….
This morning, 25 hours into a train ride from Lhasa, I received a phone call. It was my buddy calling – “Hey, Brian? Are you back in town? Well, they looked at the moon last night and decided that the end of Ramadan was today and not tomorrow like they planned. Yeah, Eid will start…
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