When in 2009 the Argentinean photographer based in Barcelona Federico Frangi decided to take an analogue camera with him on his first trip to India and Nepal, perhaps he already sensed that revelations, in every sense of the word, would be part of his life from then on. Or perhaps they had been part of it. In this initiatiory journey, the contact with the culture of the Himalayan nomads had such a profound impact on him that he decided to portray them. The images show men and women working in the same way as centuries ago, without incorporating machinery, with a basic form in which there is no replace- ment for the energy of the body or the hands of the worker. Frangi shared with these people their daily sacrifices, their moments of silence and meditation, their ingenuity and their wisdom. When he came back he exhibited at the House of Tibet Foundation Barcelona and the echo was inspiring. “Silence encompasses these photographs,” Frangi explains. “There is a very necessary, vital and healing silence that I find in these very open places in contrast to the place I come from: so closed, full of noise and information ... I like being an intermediary, taking things from one place and depositing them in another, generating empathy and triggering the imagination”.