Incredible Faces...pt1

I've had the privileged to take pictures of some amazing local faces while here in Nepal and I wanted to take the opportunity to share some of them. As most of my friends know, I'm pretty inseparable from my camera and I particularly love capturing the faces of people who have amazing stories. Most of the images here are of Tibetans who live in the Tibetan Refugee Settlements scattered around Pokhara, Nepal. The elders have all got a story that either involves having fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion in 1959 or who were part of the Mustang Guerrilla army who continued to fight the Chinese until the late 60s. The young generation who are being brought up in the settlements are now struggling with their identity, and most of struggling with the lack of opportunities for them. Ultimately the younger generation are the future of the community and the seed for Tibet to live on. It's the younger generation that I'm going to be working with closely while I'm out here. 

Different Worlds

Working withing the real developing sector, with NGOs that function on the most basic budgets, and looking out on people who live on the smallest amount every day...and then seeing an add for the new super swish, Microsoft offering to the world which costs what three families could live off for a month...I actually had to remember that this is the same world we are living in.