Nine Years Later...

Summer 2015 was my third trip to Ladakh, India.  On this trip, I brought prints of some portraits that I had taken in 2006 and 2009, hoping to find the same people again. I bumped into this monk again by coincidence at a ceremony in my friend's home. The photo below shows the monk holding a copy of the photo I took of him in 2006.  In the photo from 2006, he is wearing a white bandage across his forehead. In 2015, he is still wearing the matching scar.  -TT

Monk in 2006 and 2009, Ladakh, India