Tamin Totzke in the Gobi. Filmed and edited by Ronen Schechner.
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Archive for September, 2013
Reluctant Exposure
Photographing in Mongolia was challenging on many levels – the harsh environment, the excitement of the whole project coming into fruition, the lack of time available for an authentic, intimate connection to the place. There’s a certain loneliness I felt under the expansive sky of the Gobi and the vast […]
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Bayaraa
Who by fire? Who by water? Who in the sunshine? Who in the nighttime? And who, shall I say, is calling? –Leonard Cohen
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I Do Not Ride the Mongolian Horses
Mentally obscured, bindus unclear…
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The Sangha
We are formed. We are forming. Ronen, Tamin, Glenn, Sarah, Jon, Clemma, Magdalena and Marc. Eight wagons in a caravan. Eight spokes to a wheel, turning in the same direction, across sands and mountain passes, from the Gobi to Everest. Our journey is begun. We explore, reflect, probe and share. […]
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Senses
The Gobi Dessert is returning my senses back to me over and over again,I did not even know to miss them…
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To Ulaanbaatar
Crossing the Gobi by train at night…
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In Search of Padma Sambhava
The Dalai Lama once remarked that future historians will probably refer to the twentieth century as a century of war and bloodshed. Two world wars, together with violent dictatorships and Communist mass murders, witnessed the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people. But as Charles Dickens once said of […]
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On September 10th, 36 hours after a 24 hour flight, Ronen Schechner filmed a procession to Shambhala in the Gobi. The procession, which started with the blast of a conch, celebrated the consecration of a new assembly hall of the Hamrin Hrid Monastery. For three continuous hours, Ronen raced from […]
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Melt Down
From the comfort of our cheerfully arranged and well meaning lives we travel to the future in search of the ancient.
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