{"id":1009,"date":"2015-06-08T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:23:13","slug":"nepal-the-art-of-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: The art of dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1010\" style=\"width: 911px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/living-with-death-in-a-temple-in-nepal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1010 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853941.jpg\" alt=\"a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853941\" width=\"921\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853941.jpg 921w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853941-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853941-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yani Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This year Australian photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yaniclarke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yani Clarke<\/a>\u00a0spent a month documenting life and death at Nepal&#8217;s Pashupatinath Temple, a site that incinerates more than 40 bodies a day. Despite the constant presence of death and grief, Pashupatinath is hardly somber. Clarke&#8217;s photos are full of holy men, monkeys, and festivities. But it was still a shock for the photographer, at the age of 21, to engage with death so intimately for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014\" style=\"width: 911px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/living-with-death-in-a-temple-in-nepal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853872-1.jpg\" alt=\"Yani Clarke\" width=\"921\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853872-1.jpg 921w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853872-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/a-month-at-nepals-death-temple-body-image-1427853872-1-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yani Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Erected in the 17th century, Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, is one of the most significant Hindu temples of Lord Shiva in the world &#8211; home to orphans, beggars, rabies-riddled-monkeys, un-holy-holy-men and of course: the dead, the living, and both &#8211; stuck in the grips of life`s cruel limbo.\u00a0Pashupatinath is in a state of flux, brought about by modern technologies such as the impending opening of an electric crematorium only a few hundred meters away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Read the interview with Yani Clarke on VICE.com:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/living-with-death-in-a-temple-in-nepal\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/living-with-death-in-a-temple-in-nepal<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yaniclarke.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yani Clarke<\/a><\/span> is a 21-year-old\u00a0Australian photographer based in Montreal, Canada.\u00a0Yani was raised\u00a0in\u00a0Newrybar \u2014\u00a0a small country town\u00a0in the Hinterland of Byron Bay in the Far North Coast of\u00a0Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In 2013 Yani worked in tandem with renowned Australian documentary photographer and photojournalist,\u00a0Jack Picone.\u00a0In 2014 and 2015 Yani\u00a0was nominated for the\u00a0prestigious\u00a0<em>Joop Swart Masterclass<\/em>, being one of only three Australians selected.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Australian photographer\u00a0Yani Clarke\u00a0spent a month documenting life and death at Nepal&#8217;s Pashupatinath Temple, a site that incinerates more than 40 bodies a day. Despite the constant presence of death and grief, Pashupatinath is hardly somber. Clarke&#8217;s photos are full of holy men, monkeys, and festivities. But it was still a shock for the &#8230; <a title=\"Nepal: The art of dying\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1009\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Nepal: The art of dying\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}