My Tibetan name is Mehla and my English name is Ingrid. I am twenty one years old. I grew up in a medium-sized nomadic family. My mom gave birth to me in a black tent. Now my family is living in Rega village, which is in Hongyuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan province. I enrolled in school when I was ten years old. I have been studying Tibetan for thirteen years and I have been studying English for three and half years. I am interested in this photo project because I can learn lots of things about cameras, and can I learn how take good photos. Also I can study computer skills through this photo project, such photo editing, re-touching and exposure control. We can also do cultural preservation using photography. In Tibetan areas, some communities’ clothes and customs are changing over time. So we show other people our traditional customs and costume from our pictures. In this way, others can learn about our culture. Also we can compare different area’s custom, clothes, lifestyles and landscape from these photos. I have also gained great benefit from the project because I have been able to document my development projects using my project camera. If I didn’t have access to this camera, then it would be much more difficult, expensive and inconvenient for me to record my work in development.
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