by photo@ktm | Nov 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 his first arrival in...
by photo@ktm | Nov 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 House, behind where...
by photo@ktm | Nov 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 published in the...
by photo@ktm | Nov 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
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 people looking at...
by photo@ktm | Nov 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
History is made everyday, by people like you and me, through our daily actions, decisions and interactions. The history we learn in our schools, however, do not consider regular people as makers of history, but as mere spectators. Photo Kathmandu’s week-long...
by photo@ktm | Nov 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
On November 1, a day after Nanda Kishor Pun, former chief of the Maoist’s People Liberation Army, was elected vice-president of the country, Thomas Borberg, photo editor-in-chief of the legendary Danish newspaper Politiken, went down to the local stationary store in...
