Laughing on the stairs
Dadagaun, Kathmandu, February 2005
On the roof of the building next to Sunita’s house, I ran across these two friends.
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Sisters, Ambika and Kopila
Kathmandu, 11 June 2011
With an old 2005 photo of Kopila and Ambika in my hand, I asked around the neighborhood and was able to find these two sisters again. Looking now, at first I thought Ambika was laughing in both photos, but it was Kopila in the older photo.
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I ran across another photo taken on the porch of their family's house on the same day.
And another photo of their younger sisters, I believe.
Friends on Manamaiju Marg
Dadagaun, Kathmandu, May 2011
On the way to my friend Sunita's house, I would regularly pass by these women who lived nearby. Reena, the woman in red, has a son named Sweeker with a wonderful smile.
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Reena's son
Sarada, Anju and Shanta
Balaju, Kathmandu 2011
I first got to know the teachers of Niharika Shishu Kunja High School in 2005. I think it was because I was walking by when they were putting on an outdoor student talent show.
People from the area and passersby from Ring Road lined the fence around the school, watching as students performed intricate dance routines. I too looked in, and I think I was invited inside.
Sarada and Shanta teach the school's youngest children (see below), while I believe Anju teaches one of the higher grades.
The school is a caring, welcoming place—and I'm glad the students have it.
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Children in Shanta's nursery classroom
Children playing a game of Duck, Duck, Goose
A lone "copy" (notebook) left behind on a desk
Laughing children
Kathmandu, 2005
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Mothers, daughters, friends
Kathmandu, 2011
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Sabina’s grandmother laughing
Kathmandu, May 2011
I first met Sabina with her friend Mamata when I took their photo back in 2002.
Walking the dirt road through the same neighborhood some nine years later, I heard "Jack!" from inside an open window. Sabina came out of the house, and I was brought to the garden behind the house to meet her extended family. I took a group photo of them all, as well as two of her grandmother—this one of her laughing, seen above, and the first one, seen below.
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Sabina’s mother and a friend.
Sabina (waving) with her family.
Joking in a garden
Kathmandu, 2002
Walking away from the city, through the more rural part of Kathmandu, I said hello to this group of friends farming their garden plot.
I was talking and joking with them, when I quickly discovered who the joker in their group was.
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Friends laughing beneath a tree
Futung, Kathmandu, 2002
I found this group of friends sitting beneath a tree on the top of a Suess-esqe little hill (see panorama below). I asked if I could take their photo and they said yes, but the first photo I snapped, they all looked deadly serious. When I mimed my best impression of their serious faces, they burst into laughter and I took this second shot.
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The tree where I took the photo is on the top of the little hill that, in the photo, is above and a little to the right of the little house-like building on the left. (click to see larger)
And here is a small version of that first photo that I described above.
Friends doing laundry
Betrawati, 2002?
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