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