Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion
Through the mid-90s and early 2000s, Nepal was steeped chaos and tragedy. A Maoist insurgency shook the country since 1996, leaving the country in economic and political shambles. The civil war has cost over 12,000 lives, and the communist rebels and the incumbent King Gyanendra’s were long locked in a stalemate: the Maoists controlled most of the countryside, while the king’s government were entrenched in the cities.
I started photographing this conflict in 2005, and followed the events through the fall of the monarchy and the conflict’s immediate aftermath.
