Kevin Bubriski
Kevin Bubriski's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center
of Photography in New York. His work is also in the collection of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, The Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon and the
Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He is a recepient of fellowships from
the Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, The National Endowment
for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council.
Bubriski has spent nine of the past twenty years in Nepal with
photographic journeys from his home in Nepal to neighboring India, Tibet
and Bangladesh. He has always been interested in photography's
potential to serve as a bridge between diverse cultures. Portrait of
Nepal , Bubriski's book of black and white view camera portraits and
landscapes won the 1993 Golden Light Documentary Book Award. Power Places
of Kathmandu a book of his color work of the Kathmandu Valley was
published in 1995.
Between travels Bubriski has taught at Williams College, Bennington
College, and Harvard. In early 1997 he completed an MFA in New Media at
Bennington College. He is currently working on documentary photographic,
video, and new media projects on topics ranging from Butoh dance in
Japan to Hindu ritual practice in India. He lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Image Titles:
- Patan Durbar Square, Nepal 1987
- Tamang Girls, Yarsa, Nepal 1984
- Mirgasthali Forest at Pashupatinath, Nepal 1984
- Lama Kangri Tenzing and Monk, Mangri, Nepal 1985
- Gyamjo Lama, Haku, Nepal, 1984
- Tamang Shaman, Yarsa Nepal 1984
- Hulling Rock, Nira, Nepal 1985
- Tamang Family, Gatlang, Nepal 1984
- Ee Bahal, Patan, Nepal 1987
- Winter Bridge, Kathmandu Nepal, 1988
- Newar Penitent, Bhaktapur, Nepal 1988
- Porters, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984
- Hindu pilgrims, Allahabad, India 1989
- Udasin Sadhus, Allahabad, India 1989
- Police and Buddah's feet, Kathmandu, Nepal 1989
- Balaka Giri, Benares, India 1989
- Tenkei, Tokyo, Japan 1996
- Kudo Taketeru, Tokyo, Japan 1996
- Akeno and Hakutobo, Tokyo, Japan 1996
- Jun Wakabayashi, Tokyo, Japan 1996