Kathmandu, Dec. 27 -- The stones of Sushila Bishwakarma's village are disappearing.

Not metaphorically but literally. The stones she once played with as a child in Kerabari, Morang, are being pulled apart from the hills that birthed them. Boulders break loose and roll down. Streams grow thinner while rivers swell wider-roads cut through soil that once held stories and childhood games.

For Bishwakarma, this slow erasure is not just personal but also political.

"I grew up watching my village change by the day," she says. "The forests are thinning, and the stones are vanishing in the name of development. I keep asking myself what kind of change this is."

Her photographs are where she asks that question most honestly.

A visual artist and...