KATHMANDU:

On the left side of the door, as one enters the Lazimpat Gallery Café, one will see three photographs (framed) of three children with their arms around each. What shines through the glass of the frame is the innocence, the sense of camaraderie, a carefree attitude and that of childlike wonder.

One wonders are they siblings or friends? They could be either or both.

With this single shot, artiste Anne Lelong is able to take those who visit the gallery on a run down memory lane where the three children could be the viewer and his/her friends/siblings posing for Lelong.

This is but one of the many photographs that have been put up as part of Lelong’s photo exhibition titled ‘Enfants du Nepal’, which was inaugurated on March 16 by the French Ambassador to Nepal Michel Jolivet.

The photographs are mostly of children from the upper reaches of the country.

As one walks through the gallery amidst the framed black-and-white photographs of Nepal’s child, one will come across myriad emotions that can only be found in a child’s face — a not-so-shy but one curious girl looking at you from the door of her house beckons you, while a group of five boisterous boys hanging from a doorframe will make you smile back at them.

The proceeds from the sale of the photographs will go towards the aid of the Mula Mountain School, Dolpa.