Images of Jumla - Tatopani

goats don't quite know what to make of the camera

Lauri in her kitchen making roti

kids often carry their younger siblings around

women carrying dung out to the fields

we followed

it takes many journeys to fertilise the fields and
groups of women all help each other

this woman has the most incredible eyes - and smile

the view down the valley towards Patarasi mountain

old man enjoying his pipe

young girls beating grain

Man Bahadhur in his kitchen smoking fish

washing clothes by the river

Nisha & Sophie

Lauri giving Sophie a tika as we prepared to leave Tatopani

Images of Jumla - Ghodasin

smoking & thumb sucking

cooking up a feast at a festival

Nisha's mum, Rusa

boys playing karam - woman carrying heavy load in background

the crowd in the village watching crazy dancing at the festival

people store corn on the roof for the winter

gambling game played at festivals

Bishnumaya

Sandesh having his face washed

man running with goat (obviously)

Images of Jumla - Urthu-Chautara

Here is a selection of images from our first days in Urthu-Chautara, Jumla.

village life on the rooftops of Urthu
Chautara is the village on the other side of the river

our first morning - the village meeting on the 'high street'

Nisha, our production 'sprite' aka everything girl

everyone is always curious

the mandir (temple) at the top of the hill

Usha

Jumla's launderette

Nabina

grandparents are often looking after the kids

Khamani, Deepa and Jumli apples

These are pictures from our first week of our time in Jumla. This is and will be our main base but during our time we travelled to other regions - to film the EWN Eco-Tourism training in Tatopani (the same training that was the initial inspiration for this project), and also to revisit the women I had met at that training to see how their lives had been affected by the training.

As always, more to come...