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Kashish Das Shrestha
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Kashish Das Shrestha is a fourth generation photographer. While his family pioneered studio and commercial photography in Nepal, Kashish has always worked as documentary photographer/ photojournalist. Since 2000, his work has appeared in various national and international media outlets, print, online and broadcast. In Nepal he worked with Himalmedia for many years, initially as a writer and contributing photographer and later as Editor of Wave magazine. He continues to contribute to Nepali Times and Himal Khabarpatrika. In New York, where he has been based since 2003, he was the founding Editor of Nepali Aawaz, a bilingual newspaper that was in print for a year and a half, giving him unprescedented access to the Nepali diaspora. As an in-house photographer for Red Bull, Kashish photographed American celebrities and the Mayor of New York. Last year he spent the summer and fall documenting the resettlement of Bhutanese refugees in New York. At the same time, he also intimately photographed the US visits of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai.Over the years his photos have also been used by Tunza, a magazine for youth by UNEP, Sly,a New York based fashion magazine, and Mix Mag, a United Kingdom based magazine. In Spring 2008, his work was also broadcast (TV) on the award winning news media Democracy Now! where he was invited as a guest speaker. Only a few days before arriving in Nepal this Februray, Kashish covered the New York Fashion Week for Metro daily, a newspaper published in more than 100 cities across Europe, North
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In 2006, the United States agreed to relocate about 60,000 Bhutanese refugees who had been living in refugee camps in Nepal for 16 years. In the summer of 2008, the Odari and the Neopaney families arrived in New York City with a suitcase full of old clothes, a few old photos and barely any money to begin brand new lives. Slowly but steadily they have assimilated. They are among several hundred Bhutanese refugees resettled across the United Stated.
Presented at photo.circle.xxvii
(14 March 2009)
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