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2001
These images and quotations are from my independent research project completed during a one month stay in Hellok, a village in Eastern Nepal, while I was a student on the Cornell Nepal Study Program. People living in rural Nepal are too often on the receiving end of well-intentioned "development” that is implemented without their input. For this project, I paired portraits with excerpts from long-form interviews to give the citizens of Hellok a voice.
2001
These images and quoatations are from my independent research project that I created during my semester studying on the Cornell Nepal Study Program. The project was completed during a one month stay in Hellok, a village in Eastern Nepal. People living in rural Nepal are too often on the receiving end of well-intentioned but ill-defined “development” that is implemented with little input from the villagers. The methodology for this project was to ask villagers about their development priorities and to discuss the concept more broadly. I paired portraits with excerpts from longer interviews to give the citizens of Hellok a voice and to challenge outside development groups to value local input.