In October and November 2023, I went to Nepal with FreeW, a motorcycle-based charity. Two of our guides were local women who developed their riding skills with FreeW’s support. We covered over 1,000 km, travelling through the plains and mountains of Nepal. Along the way, we met local women riders, rural women, and ethnic minorities.
The money we raised helps to fund a motorcycle riding school for women in Kathmandu, and we delivered school supplies to kids of single mothers in a village in southern Nepal. Other trips had delivered reusable menstrual products. Each trip, including ours, brings meaningful support to the women of Nepal.
Before the start of the trip I spent a few days with Shashi Bikram Shah, a Nepalese artist whose work was just acquired by Tate Gallery in London. I was there to document his studio and his work. He and his family were very generous with me, we shared meals and I was honour to meet his extended family.
The photos below—either I took them, or I’m in them. Enjoy.

Me, photographing Shashi Bikram Shah

In his studio

My first lunch on my first day in Kathmandu

Sadhus at the cremation ground

Hijra at the cremation grounds

Meeting the Dui Pangre Queens

The view from my seat

Resting on the first day

Handing out school supplies

Cooking lunch in an ethnic minority village

Ruins, on the road

Yac Donald's

Entering the national park

Wearing lipstick to pass the time waiting for a landslide to be cleared

Harvesting rice

Our host, first night on the road

End of a long day

Homecooked dinner over the fire

Petrol stop

Cooking lunch

Muktinath

The aftermath of a flood, Kagbeni

Ready to go

Creative locks

The last morning on the road



Kathmandu


A drinker



How many people does it take to fix a flat?






