He was first drawn to Tibet by the prospect of seeing an "untouched culture." On his first trip there, in 1987, photojournalist Steve Lehman met a member of the Tibetan resistance movement who had spent 15 years in prison. Then he watched as some monks were arrested for showing the Tibetan flag in the capital city of Lhasa. His pictures of the event, smuggled out and published worldwide, gave foreigners their first view of significant unrest inside Communist China. During a career that has also taken him to Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Angola, Lehman has not stopped thinking of the monks, the soldiers and the long and fraught relationship between China and Tibet. The montages here – featuring the Dalai Lama, Mao Zedong and a homeless Tibetan boy – are taken from his book, "The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive," to be published next month by Umbrage Editions. Lehman's work will also be on exhibit at the Newseum in Arlington from Nov. 4 through Jan. 10. dalai lama main page