Introduction to Whispered Prayers: Portraits of Tibetans in Exile

It was out of his work as a photographer since 1967 that Stephen Harrison first traveled alone to India in 1996 with his large format 7x17-inch camera and 500 pounds of equipment to record and photograph life amongst Tibetans living in exile.

The work that emerged over the next five years includes:

a 47-print platinum/palladium exhibition that is framed and complete.

a 167-page book entitled “Whispered Prayers: Portraits and Prose of Tibetans in Exile” with an introduction by His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and essays  by Vicki Goldberg, art critic and Anthony Storr, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry.

a 22-minute film entitled: “Whispered Prayers”. The film augments the exhibition with narration and an original music score by composer Christopher Thomas. The film was awarded three international CINDY film awards in 2001 among 3,200 other competing films.

Far from being a project restricted to Tibet, this work speaks broadly to the human condition and documents

the extraordinary in humankind.