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Person in a green jacket casting offerings into a smoking outdoor fire beneath a bright sky — Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dordogne, France — March 2015 — The Dhagpo Fire Collection — photograph by Tokpa Korlo
Gloved hands tending evergreen branches burning in an outdoor fire — Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dordogne, France — March 2015 — The Dhagpo Fire Collection — photograph by Tokpa Korlo
Offerings falling through pale smoke above burning evergreen branches — Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dordogne, France — March 2015 — The Dhagpo Fire Collection — photograph by Tokpa Korlo
Orange flames climbing through evergreen branches with a figure standing behind the fire — Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dordogne, France — March 2015 — The Dhagpo Fire Collection — photograph by Tokpa Korlo
Person in a brown jacket holding a long ladle above a fire while others watch — Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dordogne, France — March 2015 — The Dhagpo Fire Collection — photograph by Tokpa Korlo

Fire - A living, breathing, constantly and forever changing and moving mixture of light, dark, brilliance and shadow, smoke and flame.

DHAGPO KAGYU LING, DORDOGNE, FRANCE · MARCH 13, 2015

The Dhagpo Fire Collection

There is something intrinsic and vividly hypnotic about fire, as it comes from a single flame and is from the first instant never the same again, consuming all around it - a dance of details and colors that you have to truly peer closely to avoid missing, instant to instant different and moving.

Offerings cast and thrown into the fire caught in mid flight, the instant before they merge into one, consumed by the flames, creating sparks that pop and singe the air. Smoke that is both dark and mysterious, beautiful and serene, billowing in all directions, swallowing up the sunlight casting shadows on the pavement.

Color and light - a contrast that is forever interesting and consuming for a photographer - especially for me as this balance and relationship is a quest I am constantly on, forever looking for detail and points of view that can be both engaging and interesting - while bringing the viewer inside, for these split second moments captured by the camera can hold an instant frozen in time, allowing us to peer deeply within, and to discover a myriad of colors and details not otherwise possible to capture by the naked eye.
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