12 and on his own. This Han boy was abandoned by his parents in Lhasa after they moved there. The Tibetan people gave him food and cared for him. He took shelter near a Tibetan Buddhist temple.
What a world of weariness and hurt in that face. And what an anquishing decision for his parents to have made. A tear in the human continuum. As I have often remarked of your work, your photo preserving the situation and the emotion grasps the only good to come out of situations like this. In digitized form or film, the event can never be forgotten, never be denied. We must all realize that what happens in one family happens in the family of all of us.