What I Learned From Nepali Women During Teej Festival
Images from a recent festival here called Teej. Welcoming the monsoon season and is celebrated primarily by girls and women, dress in red, with songs, dancing and prayer rituals. Women…
Images from a recent festival here called Teej. Welcoming the monsoon season and is celebrated primarily by girls and women, dress in red, with songs, dancing and prayer rituals. Women…
Sometimes you come along and I see you just being there. Silent. Just then time stood still between us. You are there on your own now, I am here just…
"We have no where to go. I'm trying to gather five to seven families here to rent a piece of land nearby, so we can start building our new home.…
Title: Helpless Gurung Child At the village north of Dhading, a Gurung child looks out from her door when a relief aid team passes by, while her mother stands by…
"Tell me why are you always helping others to build their shelters?" "I help them build it so later they will help build mine. Because I know I'm old and…
Tamang people in Jharlang. A local working on his corn harvest. He is partially blind and deaf, yet he sits here daily preparing his harvest for the week. In the…
Series of some moments captured during my second trip to Hokse, Palanchok. A mountain village where the earthquake had destroyed most of the houses and many lives. A grass-root volunteer…
I met her at a yearly festival called 'Gai Jatra' where they celebrate the death of a loved one. This year they paraded with pictures of more children, more parents…
"I am 18 and I have 2 kids. My first child is three years old." She is from Bihar, India. She lives in this basement home, underground, renting it of…
The Hokse Student. Thousands of children in Nepal have been effected after their schools were destroyed by the earthquake. Today many of them go to make shift schools, temporary sheds…
The Hokse Farmer - Nepal. Terraced farming on the foothills of the mountains is a common sight in many of the villages in Nepal. Many of this farmers livelihoods were…
Hokse in Palanchok, also nicknamed "Kidney Village' as almost everyone in this small village has sold a kidney or knows someone who has. I've heard rumors of some who have…
"I've been staying here all my life. My children use to live with me in this house. But now they moved out and live by themselves in a shelter. My…
Did you live here? "Yes, this was my home. Look at it now, first the top floor collapsed and then the whole thing came down." "Where were you when the…
"They found him here, his body was buried under this bricks and trapped between the fence of our front gate. I think he tried to escape but didn't make it."…