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Friday 15 April 2016

Photos: Chinese Model Faces Detention After Posing Naked

A Chinese model has come under fire after posing unclad for in a controversial shoot at a famous holy lake in Tibet. Photos of the traveler whose pictures were posted by one 'Youchum Dolkar' on Weibo, was said to be 'disrespectful' to the culture of their country.
The sacred waters of Yamdrok Lake in Tibet shine a brilliant blue green that attracts pilgrims and tourists alike until earlier this week When focus shifted from the turquoise waters to a semi-naked woman who was photographed by the lakeshore.

Images of the scantily clad model were posted and reposted on Chinese social media earlier this week, catalyzing debate about whether the nude photo shoot constituted a cultural sin, akin to, say, images of undress in the heart of the Vatican. The lake is believed by locals to be a kind of female Buddhist guardian, and its waters are used to sanctify souls.

The mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, tweeted in English that the photographer “got 10 days’ detention for taking photos of unclad female tourist at sacred Tibetan lake.”
According to a social-media accounts, the photographer is a professional cameraman nicknamed Yu Feixiong who lives in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

On his Weibo account, he said that he took the photos because the model wanted “to have some memory of this sacred land” while she was at an age that she considered her optimum (“The girl told me it’s her best age when she travels to Tibet … [Her] youth is leaving.”)

See more photos below:

This last one though, Don't look if you are below 18




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