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<\/a>The show of large-scale photographs is the product of Schwarzenbach\u2019s extensive time spent living with the Changpa nomads along the Indo-Tibetan border. His work presents the contemporary story of nomads confronting climate change, economics, and geo-politics in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n\u201cIn this new body of work, I was really diligent in selecting the images, and portraits specifically, that convey emotion to help people try and grasp that something is happening in this area that doesn\u2019t fit with an expectation of what you might think,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
For centuries, the Changpa have herded yak and Pashmina goats in the Changthang, a pristine high grassland spanning the border between Tibet and Ladakh, India. Today, the younger generation is leaving and pastoralism is dying out.\u00a0\u201cThe Generation of Uncertainty\u201d\u00a0pays homage to the traditional livelihood in transition.<\/p>\n
It raises questions about how all cultures experience and embrace change. Portraits are juxtaposed against landscape and images of human impact. The work is powerful, urging reflection about humanity\u2019s role in a time of immense global transformation.<\/p>\n
Now 23, Schwarzenbach began working with the Changpa six years ago. With support from a Keller Venture Grant, the Edith Gaylord Prize in Asian studies, and CC Career Center funding, he lived in the nomad camps and was able to bear witness with pen and camera. Naropa\u00a0<\/i>is housing the first scheduled exhibition of this work.<\/p>\n
The show is on display from January 14 through February 26. The Lounge Gallery is located inside Naropa\u2019s Nalanda Campus at 6287 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder and the opening reception runs 5:30- 7:30 pm., Friday, Jan. 22. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.<\/p>\n
Schwarzenbach lives and works between Putney, Vermont and Colorado. In September, Schwarzenbach spoke and showed work as part of the Tibetan Children Education Foundation\u2019s 25th\u00a0Anniversary events at the Holter Museum in Helena, Montana.\u00a0Last month he was featured in a solo exhibit for TOCA SHOES on New York City\u2019s Lower East Side. Schwarzenbach received a BA from Colorado College. More at:\u00a0www.bretonschwarzenbach.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIt\u2019s a global story about a people who are cutting away from their roots and moving away from a traditional livelihood, and I\u2019m trying to convey some of that emotion of loss, and force people to think about that process as it applies to other cultures,\u201d says Breton Schwarzenbach \u201915 his photography exhibit \u201cThe Generation … <\/p>\n