Photographer
United States of America
kevinbubriski
Kevin Bubriski has been photographing Nepal for forty years since arriving here as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1975 to 1978. Kevin returned to Nepal in 2015 to document the earthquake’s devastation and recovery efforts in the Kathmandu Valley, Sindupalchok and Dolakha. His photographs were exhibited during Photo Kathmandu 2015. He was also one of the inaugural speakers of the Nepal Earthquake Summit at Dartmouth College.
Kevin’s 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. Kevin is recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA and Robert Gardner fellowships. His books include Portrait of Nepal, (1993) and Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (1995) and Maobadi (2011), a collection of portraits Nepal’s Maoist combatants. His recent book “Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos Por Vida 81-83” was published in March 2016 with the Museum of New Mexico Press.
Kevin is an Associate Professor of Photography and Documentary Studies at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. Over the 2016-2017 academic year Kevin is on a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship in Nepal.