For so long as I can remember, my old man, he was a drunky and a bully. So many times I have seen him beat my ma without mercy, with a buckle belt or his fists.

Perro prances merrily down the path, balancing his huevo jauntily on his nose, to the amazement of some watching chickens.

The west side is one massive building site, although it's hard to appreciate what's going on behind all the hoardings.

What is not so clear is that this series was actually inspired by the paintings of a Han Chinese artist, Chen Danqing, who lived in Tibet in the 1960s and '70s and specialized in portraits of Tibetans who had been neither modernized nor Maoized.