Alison Wright: Award Winning Photojournalist
Alison is a freelance photojournalist specializing in documenting the traditions and changes of endangered cultures and people in remote areas around the world. She was the 1993 recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award for her photographs for child labor in Asia and lived with exiled Tibetans in Nepal and India for over a decade, recording their culture and challenges which exile has brought.
Her first trip to Nepal was in 1988 on what she thought would be a month-long assignment photographing children for UNICEF. She was so captivated by the magic of Asia that she stayed for almost four years, and has continued to return there nearly every year since. Alison was drawn to the Tibetan settlements she encountered throughout India and Nepal.
"After visiting Tibet a number of times and sadly realizing that since the Chinese occupation in the late 1940's, more of the culture exists outside of the country than in it, I felt compelled to document the Tibetan life in exile as it evolves and flourishes."
"While working on this project over the past decade I have constantly marveled at how the Tibetan people have opened up their homes and their hearts to me, confiding their experiences, their memories, their hopes and their fears as they began new lives for themselves in strange lands."