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Alessandra Meniconzi, The Swiss freelance photographer is fascinated by the lives and traditions of aboriginal people in remote areas of the world. The spotlight of her works is on the ancient heritage, customs, theology, and daily life of indigenous people who are strongly connected to the land and whose traditional cultures are disappearing due to pressure from the modern world. Her images express her love of boondocks. This Swiss Photographer has spent the last decade traveling along the over 2,000 year-old trade route that links East and West: the "Silk Route". On her mountain bike, she followed the traces of the countless merchants that once transported valuable spices, fabrics and jewelry along this route from Turkey to Tibet, and from Pakistan over the Hindukush and on to China.
In her journey she traveled 1500 km in total of which more than half the distance through rough mountain tracks. On her travels, she covered the endless grasslands and some of the most impressive mountain ranges of the world and her love to nature allowed her to gain access to lives that often remain hidden to the photographer's lens. Along the Silk Road there are many different ethnic groups. She spent time in the tents of Uzbek nomads and the kitchens of Tibetan monks. She spent time with the Kalash minority of Pakistan and was invited to the wedding celebrations of a Kazach couple. The photographs provide a comprehensive, personal insight into the original lives of the people who live along the Silk Route and are fighting for the survival of their traditions in modern Asia. After many years of working in Asia, she traveled in Iceland and became interested in the Arctic.
Alessandra Meniconzi was born in Lugano and she has studied as a graphic designer. Before she got into photography she was into traveling. Her main motivation was the desire to explore faraway places and different cultures and photography was simply a way to record her experiences. Her preferred lens is the 24-70mm f/2.8. She use filters quite a lot - polarizer, skylight and UV, Neutral Density and color correction 81A, 81B and 81C. Usually she carries the 540EZ Speedlite. She has a high regard for the following photographers: Olivier Föllmi; Eric Valli; Steve McCurry; Ami Vitale; Frans Lanting; Steve Bloom; Roland and Sabine Michaud; Pascal and Maria Marechaux and, in particular, Yann Arthus Bertrand.
Her photographs have been published in magazines such as Animan and Terra, and in cards and calendars. She is the sole photographer for the books Silk Road (2003), Mystisches Iceland (2007), Hidden China (2008). She has won numerous photograph contests, one of which is the Nature's Best Photography contest. Her winning image, Arnastapi, is exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She is currently working on the new books about Tibet and Arctic.
Mohammad Rashed
China's Yunnan Province
While China’s northeastern parts such as Beijing and Shandong may represent the historical heart of the People’s Republic, it’s in the west where we find a unique cultural diversity that is so attractive to travelers.
Nowhere else in the country might one uncover the splendor of China’s varied minority population than ’south of the clouds,’ Yunnan. Situated on the southwestern corner of four other provinces, Yunnan also shares borders with three countries (not quite including Thailand and India), its proximity resulting in the highest concentration of ethnic groups in all of China.
However, with the northern Naxi city of Lijiang having become China’s hottest holiday destination for tour groups, nearby Dali a laidback retreat for younger backpackers, and Zhongdian a jumping off point for Tibet, south Yunnan remains a relatively unspoiled region.
From the concrete jungle of the provincial capital city of Kunming into the rain forests of Xishuangbanna, this writer bypassed the more popular route towards Laos and Vietnam for the less-explored areas around the Burma perimeter. My timing was perfect, as I arrived in the village of Menghun just before its Sunday market.
A quiet community accented with stilted wooden homes and a hilltop monastery overlooking the surrounding rice fields, the day’s drizzly weather served to enhance the village’s reticence. But through the gray I caught glimpses of color that revealed thselves to be the region’s multiple ethnic minorities.By mid-morning, Menghun’s relatively small marketplace, abounding with freshly slaughtered pig heads, brilliant fruits and vegetables, plugs of tobacco and a rainbowof textiles, became a veritable kaleidoscope of culture unlike any I have every witnessed. I was first met by the silky glory of Xishuangbanna’s majority population, the Dai, a 2000 year-old culture that fuses Hinayana Buddhism with elements of Thai. The Dai dress attractively in shimmering attire, but it is the younger Dai girls in their formfitting pastel sarongs who catch one’s eye before teasingly runing away like nymphs.
Further illuminating the otherwise dark day were the Akha people, known as the Hani. Like a resplendent yet elusive jungle bird, the Akha appear from the deep lush hills only on market day, whence they adorn themselves in heavy layers of black brilliantly highlighted with intricately embroidered patterns. Descendants of the nomadic Qiang from Tibet, each Hani subgroup wear a different colored headdress to signify their tribe, not unlike the plumage of a proud bird, and lavishly accessorize in silver-studded bracelets and leggings, patchwork satchels and antiqued coins stretching out their earlobes. Tumpline baskets around their heads and teeth stained red with betel nut are commonplace.
Especially weary of outsiders, they timidly skirted all my advancements, however friendly persistence coupled with a sincere interest in their lifestyle soon granted me access to a tight knit Akha clan. They spoke very little Mandarin, and of course no English, so we relied simply on gestures and smiles in an attempt to learn about each other.
By noon the market had cleared along with the rain, the streets now lined with vivid knots of indigenous folk awaiting tractors to take them back to their respective outlying villages.
My continued journey through Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture would take me deeper into the surrounding tropical jungles, including a 50km trek from Bulongshan to Damenglong. But those are stories for another time. For now I will reminisce over that small yet colorful town of Menghun, for nowhere else have I ever witnessed such a definitive representation of China’s beautifully proud ethnic minorities.
Tom Carter, a freelance writer and photographer from San Francisco, has lived in China the past two and a half years. He is currently backpacking through all 32 Chinese provinces.
Transportation
1) From Kunming’s main bus station on Beijing Lu, express leeper busses to Jinghong, capital of Xinshuangbanna, daily at 6:30pm (150yuan, 15 hours).
2) Shuttles from Jinghong to Menghun leave the No.2 Bus Station every 20 minutes between 7am and 6pm (15yuan, 2 hours).
Accommodation
In Mengun there are several small boardinghouses, luguan, located on the main street near the bus stop (20 yuan each). A backpacker’s favorite is Baita Fandian (White Tower Hotel, 10 yua for a bed) on the outskirts of town and overlooking a lily pond teaming with fish and frogs. Directions are complicated so it’s best to ask locals to point you there
Regional cuisine
Rice is the staple diet of the Dai people, who were the first in the history of the world to cultivate rice as a food. Sticky rice baked in fragrant bamboo is a specialty. Xishuangbanna locals also enjoy nibbling on grilled pigtail from street vendors, and perpetually chewing on betel nut (binglang) mixed with lime, which gives off a light narcotic effect while staining the mouth red.
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About the Author
TOM CARTER is the author of CHINA: Portrait of a People, a definitive 600-page book of photography due out winter 2007 from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books.
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