My Submission - World Nomards Scholarship

My Scholarship entry - Earning a Living in Nepal

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Pop up Shop. Discovering the colourful and dusty streets one morning in Thamel, I come across a farmer selling fruit to a tourist-populated hotspot. His impressive mobile shop allows fruit to be sold whilst on the move, traveling to the markets and restaurants scattered in the Valley. Custom made circular panniers are constructed using old pipe and fish net which allow him to carry larger loads than those still carting traditional timber boxes. The shop also carries a set of scales for accurately measuring desired quantities.

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Selling music to the Dark.
Seeking shelter from Pokhara's daytime heat, an enclosed mall leads me off the main street. Here, at the end sat a tiny, traditional music shop, complete with a pipe smoking owner and skipping discman. Dusty, handcrafted instruments hung for sale on the walls. An unfinished example of what was to become an instrument lay next him. With no intention to buy, I smile and leave feeling somewhat saddened by his visual surroundings. A long tunnel where he sat watching and waiting for someone to come in and purchase something. I imagined what it must have been like when business boomed for him in his busy years.

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