Kevin Bubriski

Kevin Bubriski has been photographing Nepal for forty years. His fine art photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and he was recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright and NEA fellowships. His books include Portrait of Nepal, (1993); Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (1995) and most recently the retrospective monograph Nepal 1975-2011 was published by the Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, MA and Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM.

Portraits of American Protest

In Our Voices, Our Streets: American Protests 2001–2011, Kevin Bubriski documents the first decade of the new millennium with portraits of dissent.

April 11, 2020

Korea's Border in 1979

Seeing my 1979 photos of the Korean DMZ for the first time, I’m struck by the choreography of the soldiers on either side of the border; they seemed to be involved in an intricate dance of watching and being watched.

March 4, 2018

Lost Nepal

Ever since I arrived in Nepal in 1975 as a Peace Corps volunteer, I have been taking photographs of the country. In the 1980s, I traveled the country by foot with a tripod-mounted camera. The photographs I took during this period show village and farm life continuing much as it had for centuries. Nepal has since been transformed by three decades of infusion from foreign development aid; remittances from the millions of Nepalis living abroad in South Asia, the Middle East, and beyond; new motor roads built into the mountains; the 1996-2006 civil war; and finally, the devastating earthquakes of April 25 and May 12, 2015.

September 26, 2015

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