We Do Photocopy Here

On January 23, 2015 By Jennifer PrestholdtIn Photography, Weekly ChallengesLeave a comment

I really love this photo, which I took at the University of Liberia in Monrovia in February, 2008. I love it because it of the sheer entrepreneurial spirit that you often witness in post-conflict societies.

The photocopy entrepreneur was not there on that day, but you can bet your bottom dollar that students on campus knew when s/he would be there to provide the services they needed. Although I have always wondered whether it was possible that the photocopier somehow managed to bring a photocopy machine to this spot by the electric pole. What do YOU think?

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Express Yourself.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

On September 28, 2013October 2, 2013 By Jennifer PrestholdtIn Culture, Human Rights, Photography, Travel, Weekly Challenges19 Comments

Woman harvesting rice in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

I took this photo last week in the Kathmandu Valley, near the village of Palubari, in Nepal. The monsoon season has just ended in Nepal, so the colors of the vegetation are especially vibrant right now. And the people of Nepal are always vibrant, both in their personalities and their dress.

Palubari took its name for the ginger that was once grown here, but this area in the eastern end of the Kathmandu Valley is fertile enough to grow rice, maize (corn), wheat, potatoes and many other vegetable crops.

The corn crops have been harvested already, the cobs and kernels drying in the sun along the roads that run through the valley.

Now the rice crop must be brought in. All the harvesting is done by hand (you can see the scythe in the hand of the woman in the first picture). It is hard, labor intensive work and it must all be done before the major festivals next month of Dashain and Tihar.