Anshu Gupta

Portrait of a man, capturing his reaction to the devastation caused by Nepal earthquake 2015.

Portrait of a man, capturing his reaction to the devastation caused by Nepal earthquake 2015.

I was standing on the rubble at some height and clicking pictures of the destruction when my eyes met this man. He rode his scooter paving way in between all the wreckage and stopped suddenly at one point. My eyes were continuously following him. He stepped down, noticed the intensity of the devastation, did not even take his helmet off and immediately went into an unfathomable state of pain, misery or call it agitation. He stood there with that same expression for a very long time while I stood there too just gaping at him, trying to understand his emotions, his thoughts, what he must be going through.

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