Barsha and Laxmi
Evening flash photos
Betrawati, 2000
Barsha, Sogot and Santosh
Aastha
Indu and Barsha
Aashis and Aastha, their mother and grandmother
Raju and Dipendra
Aastha jumping rope
Barsha jumping rope
Srijana sweeping
Anjana jumping rope
Barsha, Aastha, Aashis and Anjana
Indu and Usha
Evening of celebration
Betrawati, October 2000
Photo including Binod, Laxmi, Anjana, Barsha, Srijana with her arm raised, and Indu
Photo including Indu, Yashoda, Srijana with her arms raised, Bishal, Santosh, Barsha and Anjana
Tulasha holding Babita
Closer up
Half in sunlight, half in shadow
(these two photos were taken with some people in direct sunlight and others in shadow.
So I scanned the photos twice;
once over-light to bring out the features of the people in shadow,
and another time over-dark to bring out the features of the people in direct sunlight)
Betrawati, 2000
A trip to the Shree Ram temple
Betrawati, 2000
Sonu and Aastha
Flash photos taken in the evening
Betrawati, 2000
Aashis and Srijana
Aashis and Srijana
Srijana, Indu and Aashis
Friends and family on a porch
Betrawati, 2002
Indramaya receives a tika from her mother
Manamaiju, Kathmandu, 2002
I met Indramaya and her family when we bumped into each other on a path. They were returning from farming on a piece of their land, and they invited me to their house for tea.
Indraymaya’s family is very sweet and welcoming, and it is they that I most think of when I think of Manamaiju.
Indramaya’s bahini [younger sister] Sushmita is sitting next to her.
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An old photo of Indramaya’s father and mother on the wall of the family home.