Simon Norfolk
Tibetan refugees living in the McLeod Ganj district of Dharamsala in the Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas in northern India. Buddhist prayer flags adorn the hillsides

cropped recto of sheet

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Tibetan refugees living in the McLeod Ganj district of Dharamsala in the Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas in northern India. Buddhist prayer flags adorn the hillsides
cropped recto of sheet
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Tibetan refugees living in the McLeod Ganj district of Dharamsala in the Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas in northern India. Buddhist prayer flags adorn the hillsides
  • from the series Refuge: The first safe place
Date2003–2004, printed 2010
PlaceDharamsala, India
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 19 1/4 × 24 in. (48.9 × 61 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/8 × 27 7/8 in. (58.7 × 70.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2011.257
Non exposé

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Department
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Object Type
Provenance[Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in ink on verso with additional marks in a rectangle:
printed under my direct supervision / archival digital c-type print [signature] / fecit / edition number 3/10 5-10-10
Signed in ink on verso lower right inside of stamped label: Simon Norfolk

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