Kishor Maharjan
Kishor Maharjan is a Kathmandu based photographer. His interest in music and design brought him to photography. In his works, he explores rural parts of the country and makes a documentary of stories that were otherwise unheard of. He uses photography as a medium to explore, question, document, travel, and to challenge himself.
A Death in Three Acts
In recent decades, the remittance that Nepal receives from its migrant labourers abroad has grown to equal 25 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. This cash injection into the economy has helped grow the country’s middle class but it has come at a significant cost. At least two-to-three dead bodies are repatriated back to Nepal every single day from labour destinations in the Middle East and Malaysia.
The Legacy
There are still descendants of indigenous hunters, but they may be the last generation
Pilgrimage in Darchula
The Surma Saravor Jatra is a six day-long festival celebrated every even year of the Nepali calendar by the people of Darchula’s Ghajir and Chetti villages. Bire, those men making the arduous pilgrimage in the footsteps of the goddess Surma Devi, from their villages to the Surma Sarovar lake in Bajhang.