When the 25 April 2015 earthquake struck Nepal, photo.circle was in the midst of planning for Photo Kathmandu, Nepal’s first photography festival. The disaster put all festival plans on hold, diverting much-needed attention towards humanitarian...

In the dim, cool, ground floor of the Dhakhwa House in Patan, I spot a photograph of an awkward teenager. She’s clad in a shin-length dress. Her hair is pasted to one side of her forehead with a pin. She stares at the photographer in part...

By the time I reached Patan Museum at around 1 pm to check out the photo studio set up by the BIND Collective, in collaboration with the Nepal Picture Library (NPL), there was already a group of friends waiting their turn to be photographed....

I have been wandering the streets of Patan the last few days, often finding myself among a group of strangers, contributing to their collective response to the 18 exhibitions spread across the ancient city whose exposed walls have been given new...

Sustained attention, even when it pains. This seems to be the guiding principle of photographer Kevin Bubriski, whose exhibition ‘Portraits of Nepal’ currently stands in Patan Durbar Square. First arriving in Nepal in the 1970s as a Peace Corps...

On Saturday 7th November, around 35 Instragrammers and photographers gathered under the Pipalbot Chautari in Patan Dhoka, for Kathmandu’s first official Instameet session. The gathering organized by Nepal Photo Project’s Sumit Dayal and Tara Bedi...

After 20 years, Finish photographer Tuomo Manninen is back in Nepal for the Photo Kathmandu Festival. “Me/We”, a part of his long term series on group portraits, brings visitors back to the origins of this project, the Kathmandu of the 90s. Upon...

To me, the most perfect exhibit among the many wonders of Photo Kathmandu is the one that allows visitors to sit inside a camera; something that I had never done before. This is the camera obscura, created in a first floor room of the Yala Guest...

Maia Ruth Lee is an artist living and working in New York. She met Peter Sutherland in Nepal, where she spent most of her life. Together, they travelled and collected impressions of contemporary Nepal and its people. The outcome of this journey was...

In the balmy November sun, a girl pauses in-front of Kevin Bubriski’s photograph of a Mithila pillar from Suga Village, Mohatari, and recounts its ubiquity in her village to her friend. A man rushing past the east-Dhaugal wall joins a flurry of...