Magazine

The Monk with a Camera

An interview with Nicholas Vreeland

By Nicholas Vreeland

Fall 2012

Magazine Arts & Culture

Photos for Rato

Before Nicholas Vreeland became the first Western abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, he was many things: an assistant to the photographer Irving Penn; a Tibetan monk; a recipient of a geshe degree. He has longest been, however, a photographer. When Vreeland held his first camera, he was a lonely teen in boarding school. These […]

By Nicholas Vreeland

Fall 2012