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Photographer Taylor Weidman preserves culture.

Photographer Taylor Weidman's gift is making sure really important things don’t vanish.

What things?

Food. Song. Dance. Accents. Art. Ritual. Tools. Religion. Aromas. Values. Wisdom.

Through his work at Vanishing Cultures, he protects “culture” – that beautiful but fragile combination of the above elements sculpted by an often-unseen hand over the arc of time.

When I see Taylor’s photographs from Nepal, even as a regular visitor to the place that I consider my second home, I’m fascinated by how little I know. His lens draws out curiosity and a yearning to preserve what falls in frame.

I've started to embrace the idea that preservation’s prerequisite doesn’t have to be a full understanding. But preservation does have a friend in fascination.

Fascinate those that come into your life through Taylor’s lens. Be a seen hand. And don’t let this vanish.

- Mark

Mark Arnoldy is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health, an organization that exists to realize the right to health by delivering transparent, data-driven health care for Nepal’s rural poor. He needs your votes before 9/19 at bit.ly/votefornepal. Taylor's 25% of prints sales support Vanishing Cultures and you can select Nyaya as your benefit non-profit at checkout.