ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The Underbelly of Kathmandu consists of the new slum areas popping all over the valley along the filthy riversides contaminated with garbage and raw sewage. Displaced from their hillside villages due to recent Maoist conflicts or are just too poor to afford properties, these are the areas where the new urban poor live. Homelessness in Kathmandu. A family from the countryside arriving in Kathmandu looking for a better life. Unable to find work, the family is forced to live underneath the bridge burning garbage at night to keep warm.

AUTHOR
International award winning documentary photographer Larry Louie leads a dual career. He is an optometrist in Canada and also a travel and documentary photographer who has managed to combined his interests to promote the work of different charities around the world. In his optometry clinic, he is Dr. Larry Louie, working to enhance the vision of people from all walks of life in the urban core of a North American city. On his travels, he is a humanitarian documentary photographer, exploring the lives of remote indigenous people, and documenting social issues around the world. As an optometrist, Larry adjusts people’s visual perception. As a photographer, he seeks to adjust people’s view of the world. Either way, he is interested in things that exist outside the regular field of vision.
Over the last couple of years, Dr. Louie has used his photography as a platform to high light the work of different charities around the world, along with other social issues and challenges people are encountering in a world facing rapid urbanization and globalization. He wants to engage people in inspiring stories of perseverance and strength, not only of those who have found themselves caught in such a plight, but also amazing individuals and organizations that are lending a helping hand. He hopes his photographs will be able to tell the stories and make a difference, and to reveal light that is found in the darkest of places.

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