Honorable Mention / 2015 / Book Proposal (series Only) / Documentary

Mother saying goodbye to her angel

A mother and her family at performing the Hindu cremation ritual
for her baby. Pashupatinath temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Jan Moeller Hansen is a self-taught and international award-winning photographer, who works with social documentary.

From 2007 to 2012 he worked in Bangladesh and photographed women, children and men living in slums, acid survivors, sex workers, transgenders, labourers, ship breakers and other oppressed and marginalised people. Through the lens he wanted to explore reality and to learn about people and their lives.

Jan Moeller Hansen is a former Danish senior diplomat. Presently works on various social themes in Nepal. He speaks Nepali and has in-depth knowledge about Nepal and the Himalayan region.