When a professor of mine gave me these old photos of Nepal the other day, I was amazed. There is not much of a back story on them except that he bought the glass plate negatives of these in a random shop around Durbar Square back in 1986. Looking through them, it seems like they [...]
I stumbled across photos of street kids in Kathmandu the other day, taken by Frankie Nazardo. When I first saw it, I was kind of annoyed. As the photos were shown in the article, there was no information given about the kids, no genuine context, no how, no real why…just the typical stuff like poor [...]
I often talk about how photos from Nepal are always the same old cliched scenes (not excluding a lot of my work) but now I just stumbled upon something that I can say is different: a series of photos called Kathmandu 2058 by Frédéric Lecloux. Lecloux’s photography in this series from 2003 capture scenes from [...]