Staten Island's Museum of Tibetan Art hosts Meg Whitlock's 'Lhasa on the Hudson'

STATEN ISLAND LIVE
By Michael J. Fressola Staten Island Advance

Venerable Pema Dorjee, December 2011.

NEW YORK---Photographer Meg Whitlock's "Lhasa on the Hudson" photographs document part of the newest wave of Asian immigrants, Tibetans. Most live in Queens (although she did shoot a Tibetan household in Great Kills). Some 8,000 Tibetans live in the city today. Ms. Whitlock used a vintage Graphlex camera. Nearly all of the subjects are photographed in colorful traditional dress, often against a backdrop of hangings, Himalayan furnishings and art. Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave., Richmond, www.TibetanMuseum.org. [link]