This Country is Yours (Nepal, 2012-ongoing)
For over a decade a civil war raged in Nepal. Maoist rebels wanted to depose King Gyanendra and establish a Communist state on the Chinese model. In 2006 the government and rebels signed a peace agreement, followed two years later by the election of an assembly to draw up a constitution. In his series This Country is Yours the photographer Surendra Lawoti followed activists from six different social and political movements in the capital city of Kathmandu – from religious minorities and indigenous peoples to women and the LGBT community – during the writing of Nepal’s new constitution in a country that for centuries is being dominated by the ‘highter caste’ Hindus.
