Tibet House Portfolio    

The Year of Tibet Portfolio contains 24 images by some of the most important photographers in the world. The Platinum / Palladium photographs in the Portfolio, in some cases, are among each photographer’s most recognizable and important works.

This Portfolio was assembled in 1990 by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. The Platinum / Palladium photographs were printed by Thomas Consilvio in Los Angeles on Palladio paper in an Edition of 100 Numbered Prints and 24 Artists Proofs. Paper size: 13 x 16 inches. The negatives used to create the prints were made from either original negatives or original prints. All of the photographs are individually signed and/or embossed (*) by the photographers.

Portfolio I

Berenice Abbott
Mario Giacomelli
Horst P. Horst
Annie Leibovitz
Matt Mahurin
Mary Ellen Mark
Kurt Markus
Sheila Metzner
Sebastiao Salgado
Jerry Uelsmann
Bruce Weber
Joel-Peter Witkin

Portfolio II

David Bailey
Ruth Bernhard
William Claxton
William Clift
Ralph Gibson
Allen Ginsberg
Helmut Newton
Steve Meisel
Duane Michels
Herb Ritts
George Rodger

The Year of Tibet Portfolio is administered by the Gere Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of Tibet and her endangered culture. This Foundation will continue the non-violent struggle for independence by supporting the various Tibetan groups who tirelessly work for this cause. Net proceeds from the Sale of the Portfolios and individual photographs from this Portfolio will go to Not-For-Profit organizations, organized and operated to support Tibetan interests.

The Gere Foundation awards grants to humanitarian organizations supporting victims of war and natural disasters, providing HIV/AIDS care and research and addressing human rights violations occurring around the world. Our primary mission is to assist the cultural survival of the Tibetan people through health, technological and educational projects. The Gere Foundation contributes directly to The Tibet Fund, supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community-in-exile. Dislocated from their homeland since 1959 and under the continuing brutal occupation of the Chinese, thousands of Tibetan refugees risk their lives every year escaping to freedom in India, Nepal, Mongolia and elsewhere.