travel photography - Little monk, Kathmandu, Nepal

^{Little monk
Kathmandu, Nepal   -   1995}

This is a monochrome version of a scan of a color photo taken and printed in 1995.

I have traveled to different countries on this beautiful earth, but none made as much of an impression on me as Nepal. Maybe it was because it was my first journey outside of Europe, a real culture shock - the material poverty on the one hand and the spiritual richness on the other. It was transformational on my view of life.

I stayed a few days in a monastery in Kathmandu. Despite my illness from a trek through Langtang National Park which kept me in bed most of the day, I found some strength to walk around, attend some Buddhist teachings and take a few photographs. On one of my meanderings through the compounds of the monastery I stumbled upon this little monk who spontaneously took this fighting pose.

The series that this photo is part of was shot with a Canon AE-1 on 35mm color film. The negatives were developed in 1995 and printed; those original photos have faded a little bit. I scanned the photos last year on a regular office scanner. So overall the quality is not great, and I didn't attempt any touch-up or remove dust and lint because that to me is the charm of this whole series.

The color scan can be viewed in the Kathmandu series on my website.

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