Alliance Française in Kathmandu is organizing two photo exhibitions in Paris this October, the exhibition is part of a larger showcase on Nepal.   NEPAL TODAY 4 – 31 OCTOBER French Alliance Foundation – www.fondation-alliancefr.org/?p=7230 101 boulevard Raspail, Paris 6th St Placide or  Notre Dame des Champs Monday to Thursday, 8 AM – 8 PM […]

POSTCARDS AND BEYOND is an exhibition featuring the works of Mukunda Bahadur Shrestha, a Patan-based photographer who dedicated more than 25 years of his life to photography. Mukunda ji spent the 70’s and 80’s travelling across Nepal, photographing mountains, culture and people. His photographs introduced Nepal to the world. Since early 2011 NEPAL PICTURE LIBRARY […]

After a challenging 14 weeks, our Masterclass with Mads Nissen participants are very pleased to share with you the stories they have produced. PARTICIPATING PHOTOGRAPHERS Kishor K. Sharma, Shikhar Bhattarai, Phurpu Tsering Gurung, Narendra Shrestha, Prasiit Sthapit, Niranjan Shrestha, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Prem Tsering Sherpa, Sailendra Kharel, Uma Bista, Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka and Nirman Shrestha […]

As some of you may know, we have recently embarked on an exciting archiving journey that has begun to unearth very interesting material. Our archive, formally known as the Nepal Picture Library is showcasing a selection of work from its personal history collection during the upcoming Kathmandu Literary Jatra this weekend.      It gives us immense […]

kathmandu, kathmandu. an exhibition by contemporary nepali photographers 6 – 13 April 2011 | 12 – 7 PM Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal ‘Kathmandu’ means very different things to different people, depending on whether they have lived in the city or not. The West is still liable to think of Kathmandu as a sort of […]

Photos of Risk is a photo contest organized by the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium and managed by photo.circle. The contest received a total of 448 photographs submitted by 105 photographers. The contest was open to professional as well as non- professional photographers. Photographers of any nationality could make submissions, as long as the photographs were […]

Olivier Culmann photographs people watching TV. And their TV sets. The viewers’ eyes are glued to the screen, hypnotized by the images that flicker by. Olivier Culmann captures that instant during which attention subsides and consciousness slumbers, rocked to sleep by the phosphorescence of the cathode ray tubes. At that instant, their bodies often become […]

UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) celebrates its 60th anniversary and to commemorate six decades of helping the world’s uprooted people, UNHCR is organizing a 4 day festival in Basantapur Durbar Square, Kathmandu. The festival “Under One Sun” will feature 11 photo exhibits, 13 installation art displays by re-fuzed, performances by refugee and Nepali artists and […]

A series by Kashish Das Shrestha “This Time,” toured 7 Bhutanese Refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang from 1- 4 November. Over the last two months, Kashish traveled to 3 cities in America – Baltimore, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh – to study how different resettled communities of refugees from Bhutan are evolving in their new settings. […]

Photographs by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati & Text by Prawin Adhikari How do Khumbu people perceive this threat? What recent change in climate have they noticed? What is the solution to these perceived problems? Where should the solutions come from? Glacial waters from the Khumbu become the tributaries of the Koshi river. Each year, the Koshi […]