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Photo by Violin Chan. Nagarkot, Nepal, 2012
Photo by Violin Chan. Nagarkot, Nepal, 2012

Photo-A-Week #24: "Is she eating an apple?"

December 4, 2012

It seems like just another ordinary scene in a Nepali village; a single mother and her daughter were sitting in front of their house. I wanted to capture the moment when the little girl was eating under the beautiful morning light. Just when I approached her, her mother came out the door and started talking to me. Using my limited Nepalese, I casually asked her whether her daughter was eating an apple. The resulted expression on her face gave me the impression that I was asking for the impossible. After some time, I finally discovered why she reacted in such way: the price of a kilogram of apples is the equivalent of a few days' worth of salary to many people in Nepal! I was grieved with this knowledge and wished that I could give the mother and daughter some apples if I meet them again.


這小女孩和她單親的媽媽,坐在自己屋前,是鄉村生活的一個鏡頭,不算太特別,然而心中忘不了小孩手上的食物。當我從遠處看見小女孩專心吃著她的早點,在早晨日光映照下十分美麗,便走上前拍攝,剛好她媽媽走出來,我便用有限的尼泊爾話與她交談,我隨便問:孩子在吃蘋果?她的反應實在太令我難忘,好像我在說一些不可能的事。後來知道一公斤的蘋果可以是他們幾天的工資!難怪她有這樣的神情表達。有點心痛,希望有機會送她們蘋果。

- Violin

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