Tamang shaman, Gosainkund Lake, Rasuwa, Nepal 1978.
Men and boys watch the King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and Queen Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah on the main street of Jumla Bazaar. Most Jumla people considered the king a divine reincarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu. Jumla, 1978.
A Photographer's Journal
Bhuda Gharje Tamang , sixty four years old with his six-year-old son Budaman Tamang. At the time, Bhuda Gharje also has a thirty-five-year old son and a new baby son. Gatlang village, Rasuwa, 1984.
Gurung girls of Barpak village. This was the first negative exposed with the view camera outside of Kathmandu. Gorkha district, 1984.
Buddhist shaman Tsamtan Chombel has unbound his turban to show his hair, more than seven feet long and wrapped in silver coils. Limitang village, Humla district, 1985.
5 A boy visits his sannyasi grandparents at the Manakamana Ashram. Sannyasi at the ashram depend on the generosity of visitors or family members for their daily sustenance. Southern Sankuwaswaba district, 1986.
Through a Ground Glass Darkly
The sadhu Shyam Puri Naga Baba visits Pagalananda Baba's aghori dhuni (sacred fire) at the ghats, the place of funeral cremations. Aghori sadhus, followers of Shiva, live and practice rituals at these charnel. Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, 1987.
A Newar father and son manufacture bricks from wet clay during the winter season at brickyards near Bhaktapur. The bricks are set out to dry in the winter air before being baked in the kilns. Kathmandu Valley, 1987.
A sick man is portered from his village to the hospital at Khadbhari, over two days’ walk away. Arun Khola, Sankhuwasabha district, 1987.
Rituals of the Street
Pilgrims worship the large Shiva lingam at Kailash Hill, showering it with rice and other offerings during the festival of Bala Chaturdasi, when families make pilgrimage to honor deceased family members. Pashupatinath temple grounds, Kathmandu, 1988.
In an early morning downpour during the Teej Fesitval, a Brahmin priest waits for women clients who will bathe in the Bagmati River. Teku, Kathmandu, 1989.
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Troops patrolling near Indrachok. Kathmandu, 2005.
Barbers await clients in the early morning winter fog on the Tundhikhel playing fields. Kathmandu, 1989.
Young Newar men bathing on the last day of the monthlong Swasthani Brata ritual. Hanumanghat, Bhaktapur, 2005.
Monks and pilgrims on the Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, 2005.
Young boy at home. Kermi village, Humla district, 2010.
Young monks playing in the courtyard at Yalbang Moanstery, Humla district, 2010.
Taxi Kathmandu
A deep and ancient well, its bricks beautifully worn by centuries of buckets and ropes rubbing its sides, has less than four inches of water. Dattatreya Square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, 2011.
At Chabahil, a passenger wearily eyes the photographer’s camera while his daughter watches the stalled traffic ahead. Kathmandu, 2011. senger wearily eyes the photographer’s camera while his daughter watches the stalled traffic ahead. Kathmandu, 2011.
Young Nepali tourists at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace Museum. The palace, including the royal bedroom and the demolished pavilion where the June 2001 massacre of the royal family occurred, is now open to the public. Kathmandu, 2010.
Young monk, Yalbang Monastery, Humla district, 2010.
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