COLORS 74 – Victims

Thirty photos of the earthquake in China, thirty prayers of Tibetan monks, one hope. Published with two unpublished works by Chinese writers Yu Hua and Acheng.

Treviso, June 2008. Is there another way of looking at tragedy? Can two peoples – seemingly destined to be enemies – share a common hope? More than a magazine, Colors 74 – Victims is a symbolic gesture which attempts to unite where there is only division, to make peace where the only urge is to fight.

Thirty Tibetan monks have agreed to dedicate their prayers to the victims of the earthquake that recently terrorized the Sichuan province of China. From Italy to India, the U.S. to Germany, Colors visited them and showed them pictures of turmoil, hope, the invincible force of nature and the indomitable spirit of those who manage to carry on with their lives.

Each picture became a prayer, each prayer a gift. “May all people be freed of suffering and its causes,” writes Dhondup from his monastery in Seattle. “May all people aspire to equality, transcending conflict and adversity”.

As Dhondup did, so did Sherab, Tsering, Tenzing and Tenkyong, from Dharamshala and Milan to Pisa, Nottingham and Berlin. Each donated his thoughts, words, spirituality and feeling, a gift from ‘ordinary men,’ as they call themselves, to other ordinary men and women which seeks to transcend the confines of nations and specific tragedies to become a gift for each person against any tragedy.

Colors 74 – Victims. The thirty most meaningful, touching photos of the disastrous Sichuan earthquake. Thirty monks, thirty prayers, two previously unpublished articles by the famous Chinese writers Yu Hua and Acheng and ten blank pages to fill with one’s own hopes, reflections and thoughts.

Colors 74 – Victims. On sale this August and available in seven languages – Tibetan, Chinese, English, Italian, French, Spanish or German – enclosed in graphic reproductions of the traditional Tibetan prayer flags, symbols of harmony and protection against danger and evil.

http://www.colorsmagazine.com/victims/

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