Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 2017, almost two years after the deadly earthquake in 2015 named the Gorkha earthquake that killed about 9,OOO people. I had been documenting my main project "Tribe Done Gone" for 1 month straight and they daily adventures of India for another month, until I finally arrived in Kathmandu. There was nothing interesting to photograph about the temple ruins at Durban Square, only documenting the obvious adding date and place. It was time for an experiment. In the past, I've learned that other senses can replace the other or that new senses can be created. We only see the world for what it is because of the senses we've got. According to Neil Harrison, a Spanish "cyborg artist' you can design a unique sense that is related to your interest or to your curiosity. I closed my eyes and placed the camera in front of my belly as it felt like the best place to make use of "feeling' , allowing another way to perceive. The series ' Tremors of Gorkha" shows the result of the replacing sense in combination with a device that is created to record what you see. In post production I enhanced the photograph. The pictures are not manipulated, only retouched and vignetted where needed and balanced out.
Lokeren, Belgium, April 21 2022, almost 5 years after taking the pictures at Durban Square in Kathmandu. At this time I organised an event called "Pink Moon". In the event I held an exhibition in which I developed the series for the first time on Fine Art Prints. I always had the idea that this piece of work was not finished yet, but I seemed pleased so for. During the process of printing the work I found the correct title for the series: "Tremors of Gorkha", relating to the idea that the process of taking the snapshots somehow by coincidence was related to the earthquake that might still exist somehow (as in aftershocks, shakes, tremors). The missing link seemed to be myself.
On April 21, 2022, 2 days before my 42nd birthday, I woke up very early and decided to once and for all finish the work. I looked up the word "tremor" on a search engine which showed: involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling any tremulous or vibratory movement; vibration: tremors following an earthquake. A trembling or quivering effect, as of light. A quavering sound, as of the voice.
I suffer from a chronic condition, discovered when I was young and left inexplicable by doctors, after being tested negative for Parkinson's disease. My hand shakes a little bit, always, and when I get emotional, it becomes worse, until my body completely shakes. It is a fun fact being a photographer and, at this moment being owner of a restaurant in which I also bring tea and coffee to the tables.
According to numerology, my name, Emmanuel means "the hand of God" or "God is with us". At least it is what my grandmother used to say. I always believed it had more to do with my unexplained shaking-hands-condition than with The Invisible Creator (funny choice of words). The reason I stopped looking after the cause of my condition is because I attached it to my other condition: high sensitivity. Connecting all the dots of this new insight which still remains somehow vague, I now understand and can at least eliminate the missing link in this work.
Lokeren, Belgium, April 21 2022, almost 5 years after taking the pictures at Durban Square in Kathmandu. At this time I organised an event called "Pink Moon". In the event I held an exhibition in which I developed the series for the first time on Fine Art Prints. I always had the idea that this piece of work was not finished yet, but I seemed pleased so for. During the process of printing the work I found the correct title for the series: "Tremors of Gorkha", relating to the idea that the process of taking the snapshots somehow by coincidence was related to the earthquake that might still exist somehow (as in aftershocks, shakes, tremors). The missing link seemed to be myself.
On April 21, 2022, 2 days before my 42nd birthday, I woke up very early and decided to once and for all finish the work. I looked up the word "tremor" on a search engine which showed: involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling any tremulous or vibratory movement; vibration: tremors following an earthquake. A trembling or quivering effect, as of light. A quavering sound, as of the voice.
I suffer from a chronic condition, discovered when I was young and left inexplicable by doctors, after being tested negative for Parkinson's disease. My hand shakes a little bit, always, and when I get emotional, it becomes worse, until my body completely shakes. It is a fun fact being a photographer and, at this moment being owner of a restaurant in which I also bring tea and coffee to the tables.
According to numerology, my name, Emmanuel means "the hand of God" or "God is with us". At least it is what my grandmother used to say. I always believed it had more to do with my unexplained shaking-hands-condition than with The Invisible Creator (funny choice of words). The reason I stopped looking after the cause of my condition is because I attached it to my other condition: high sensitivity. Connecting all the dots of this new insight which still remains somehow vague, I now understand and can at least eliminate the missing link in this work.
Tremors of Gorkha

Tremor 1 - Asterixis (AKA Flapping Tremor)
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Tremor 2 - Orthostatic
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Tremor 3 - ET
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Tremor 4 - Settlement
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Tremor 5 - Bradykinesia (AKA Slowness of Movement)
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Tremor 6 - Life
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Tremor 7 -
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Tremor 8
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Tremor 9 -
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