Photo Exhibition

nepa-laya has done photo exhibitions across the country where more than 350,000 visitors came to see the photographs.

In many places, like this bombed-out hospital in Chautara in which two patients were killed during a night-long battle, the photographs were displayed amidst the ruins.Tens of thousands of high school and college students came to see the pictures and were deeply moved.Many relived their own war experiences and wrote down their thoughts and testimonies in guest books.During the tour, we came across some of the characters in the books. Here, Amrit Gurung presents a copy of the book to Hemanta at the exact spot in Motipur or Kailali where he had taken the picture five years previously.In Beni, mother and daughter came to see their own photograph when the travelling exhibition reached Myagdi.The photographs and panels from all three books were also kept in exhibition at the Shanti Sangralaya of the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Patan Dhoka.Travelling photo exhibition across the country in three phases in 2007-2009