When a child sees someone with a large camera, questions are asked quietly. This child became shy so quickly that she seemed to have disappeared immediately. I somehow managed to capture her expression. I actually didn't click her picture at all. But she came into the frame and I found myself clicking on the curious expression and not the shy girl.
But later, when I opened the picture on the monitor, I felt so in awe of the expression. It could be understood as that of fear as well as that of shyness in front of a powerful smile. This picture was taken in 2010, as a last chance to click some stills in Nepal before I left for India.
I am an amateur but budding photographer based in Munich. My interests are portrait and street photography but I am also discovering more areas that I might be interested in... Read more…