a broads eye view

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Worldwide | Thursday, November 3, 2011 | 5 photos

Three years ago the life I knew fell apart. I was going through a divorce, having health issues, I was too exhausted to maintain my theatre production company, money stressed me and I was done. My voice told me to walk away and start new. So I sold my home, and everything I owned, and headed west to live a life in the film industry. Quickly I realized I felt empty. I found myself in my late 30's completely lost with no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. “Ok”, I thought, “I’ll go away for a couple of months, and deal with life later”.
I volunteered to teach in Nepal. I learned to live in a village with no electricity, no running water and no thoughts of how to get a second home. Life is grounded in the now. Survival is based in communal living. Nothing is taken for granted and there is order in the day to day, the caste system, the seasons, and the family. The order is real but time is just a concept, it is not something that one lives by.
The beauty of photography is that it tricks time. Each photo is a brief moment that lasts forever. And that brief moment tells a complete story. As a child I wanted to be an Archeologist, in my teens, a photo- journalist, and as an adult I became a director/performer. At the root, I realized I am a story- teller. In this little village in Nepal where my host family with nothing gave me everything, I realized when I grow up I want to tell stories, stories that are real, stories that make a difference, and stories that last. This competition would help me to achieve that.
These photos are moments of day to day life in "my" Nepal village.