The Wheel of Life is a collection of street photographs made in Nepal that explore themes of life and death. The images focus on daily life—markets opening at dawn, traffic moving in all directions, people working, waiting, praying, mourning surviving. In a place where movement never really stops, these photographs look for stillness, tension, and connection in passing moments.

"I have had a lifelong fascination with funeral rites. It started when I watched the burial of President Kennedy on TV when I was 4 years old. I poured over photographs in Life and Look magazines that my parents had bought as collectible publications of such a historic event. Unknowingly my love of the captured image was born at the same time.

Sixty years after those fateful events, I traveled to Nepal to better my understanding of this long-held photographic passion and to amplify my cultural language. My rudimentary knowledge of this fabled country was an imaginary region of great spiritual fulfillment where human levitation was not only possible but probable. I found out it is highly terrestrial.​" -- John Agather