15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Washing his fathers ashes
This was a picture I took in Kathmandu Nepal of a man splashing water over a pyre. In Nepal, when the Father dies, his son is supposed to wrap him, put him in a pyre, and burn him. Although not true, they believe that this will bring them into the "afterlife".
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 11.2016 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2017 |
| Photo Location: | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 7D |
| Copyright: | © Riley Folsom |