travel photography - Religious life, Kathmandu, Nepal
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.
This photo to me is representative of the daily religious routine in the life of the Nepalese people.
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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Photography, art work and text by @edward.maesen
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I love how the grainy raw film looks. Very nice photo. Looks like a nice ceremony and a peaceful place.
Thank you. It was a peaceful environment for sure and I loved the slow pace of living.
i love this addition to your series. seems like you was the only one with a camera there in 1995. and nice to see ppl without phones too :-)
Thank you. Yes I went off the beaten path, so regularly I was the only person around with a camera. I wholeheartedly agree with your comment about the phones - I'd love to go back to that time without cellphones...
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