Last moments

Dhan Kumari is the mother of a "Sukumbasi" family (the landless of Nepal). She lives with her five children in a Pokhara slum. Her husband, often away from home, is a porter in the mountains. Sick for several weeks, she nurses her twin daughters for the last time before leaving for the hospital.

Before getting into photography, Didier worked for many years with refugees, homeless and victims of trauma. His professional path, as an anthropologist and a psychologist, led him to conduct researches in the Himalayan regions where he decided to remain. Since 2009, he lives in Nepal and acts as volunteer within a local group to bring support to landless families living on the margins of Nepalese society. His immersion in the slums, the dumps and the nomadic camps made him choose to dedicate himself to photography and in particular to long-term documentaries, with a focus on social issues that remain little-known. After having documented the daily life of an itinerant group, he spent most of the year 2015 among remote families affected by the Nepal earthquake.