ART: One by ONE, "Muktinath, Nepal" by Jim Spillane
2,910 views · Published 24 August 2015 · 4:14 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: John Thornton · 2015 · Education
ART: One by ONE is a video series in which one artist gives the story behind one of his or her artworks. Jim Spillane is a photographer from the Shenandoah mountains of Virginia who spends much of his life abroad, living with and photographing people who face challenging circumstances. As a young man he was a lawyer, but photography became his calling. For a number of years he documented the harsh life of people working at a brick factory in Nepal. After that was destroyed in April 2015 by the massive Gorkha earthquake, Jim has sent a good bit of his life savings over to help the families that befriended him. The photograph that I asked Jim to talk about, “Muktinath, Nepal”, was taken some years ago in the Himalayan mountains.
