I spend too much time in Kathmandu to dislike it. And I like Kathmandu enough to be careful about what photos I make while I am there. After all, I want people from there to appreciate the photographs I make as much as someone who is less familiar than a person born and raised there.

Dirk Rösler thoughtfully describes the problem of photographs conforming to a viewer's expectations. So this series of vignettes avoids prayer flags, sadhus, and context-less poverty—not because these do not exist in Kathmandu but because these have nothing left to tell us.