Nepali boy in Kathmandu street, Nepal 3rd January 2007

5 Responses to “Nepali boy in Kathmandu street, Nepal”

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MC:

It is great that you kept the colorless background. The composition is fantastic, including the hollowed out tree. I love this photo.

January 3rd, 2007 at 02:15
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April:

I like what you\'ve done with this photo. One of my favorites!

January 3rd, 2007 at 02:36
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Regis:

Also one of my favorite shot. It\'s one of the best portrait. He looks so proud and confident !

January 3rd, 2007 at 10:28
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Romke:

It appears to be Arlo Guthrie\'s, but I haven\'t managed to find the originating song.

January 3rd, 2007 at 10:31
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Ashish Sidapara:

Lovely portrait, superb toning!

January 3rd, 2007 at 16:16

CameraCanon EOS 5D
Focal Length50 mm
Aperturef/4.0
Exposure1/100 sec
ISO400
Date Taken8 Apr 2006, 12:22

The story behind "Nepali boy in Kathmandu street, Nepal"

The colours of the background are a bit desaturated on purpose. This was shot during the riots and curfews of early April 2006, where the Nepali were not allowed to go onto the streets during most of the day.
First I had cropped this image to just portray the boy, but then I found that showing and exaggerating the colourless and old background made his friendly casual stance come out better.

Walking around like a pensioner with his hands in his pockets, this small world citizen likely had no clue why old power-hungry men were fighting their political and physical battles over his head. And even more likely, he probably didn’t care, which -if we all behaved like that- would take the power away from the wrong hands quickly.

I am not online as I am writing this and cannot check so correct me if I am wrong, but I think it was dutch free poet society Loesje who once said:
“What if there is a war and just nobody shows up for it?”

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