Mainpat Interdisciplinary Global Learning Project<\/a>.<\/p>\nDuring their eight-day stay, the students captured life inside the Mainpat refugee camps and connected with the Tibetan people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was fascinated by the people and surprised by their humor and compassion, despite their difficult situation,\u201d senior journalism student\u00a0Maria Dicosola<\/b> shared. \u201cMost people, especially students, never get an opportunity to travel like this or to be able to report on a culture that is so misunderstood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Led by Laura Camden<\/b>, assistant professor of photojournalism, the group focused on various aspects of life inside the nine camps. While photography major\u00a0Sean Ryan<\/b> spent his days photographing monks at the Buddhist monastery, electronic media and film major Kent Wagner<\/b> captured video of the Tibetan elders reflecting on their journey from Tibet to India, and Dicosola worked with translators to travel and conduct interviews with the new generation of Tibetans.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents put into sound and images not only the refugees\u2019 stories, but also the stories of the caring work other NAU students performed,\u201d Camden explained.<\/p>\n
The group recently presented their work, \u201cA Sense of Inclusion: A Photographic Journey of Mainpat,\u201d to an audience at the School of Communication, where the project is being showcased in its second floor gallery.<\/p>\n
The gallery also will be the site of a reception for Tulki Tsori Rinpoche, the leader of the Mainpat Tibetan Monastery, at 5 p.m. Monday, May 6. Past and future program participants are encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n
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