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Nipun Prabhakar
On-going long term photo-documentary project on the nomadic pastoralist tribes of western and central India for Living Lightly exhibition. The focus is on migration, boundaries, and the impact of climate change. Find out more about Living lightly here.
The doors of Kathmandu. Ongoing photo+book project.
Muzaffarnagar post-riot rehabilitation. Ongoing photo project since 2015. Find more about this here.
When the nuns lifted the shovel, a story of rebuilding lives and houses in the Bakhang nunnery after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Photos from various photo assignments for Non-Profit organizations.
Under the Shade of moon. A project for the government of Madhya Pradesh, 2014.
The magic show. Read more about it here
Documenting the Ajrakh natural dye block printing process for World renowned block printer. Sufiyan Khatri.
Shoot for Shrujan, a not-for-profit organization working with craftswomen in Kutch to revitalize the ancient craft of hand embroidery.
Tear Sheets
Nipun Prabhakar is a documentary photographer and Photojournalist based in Delhi and Kutch (Gujarat). He works with South Asian communities dealing with migration, disasters, conflicts, and climate change. His work is also informed by his training as an architect, and built environment plays an important role in his photographs. His long term work is with the nomadic pastoralist communities of India, documenting their lives in the context of climate change and displacement.
Nipun has been engaged in multiple rehabilitation projects in Nepal which also involved him extensively documenting public spaces and architectural heritage. He has since worked on photo essays for various development organizations, magazines, and publications.. He was a recipient of the Berkeley Essay Prize 2014 and is the Cornell South Asian Fellow 2019 for his documentary work on the doors of Kathmandu.
Nipun is a member of Diversity.photo, a community of BIPOC and non-western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the mass media have seen and recorded the images of our time.
Get in touch with him at nipun.spab@gmail.com
Collaborators/Clients
LiveWire
Platform
Round City Magazine
Tribal Museum, Ministry of Culture, Madhya Pradesh
LLDC Museum, Kutch
Russian Centre for Science and culture
Living Lightly Exhibition
Sehjeevan
Homes in the city, (Curry-Stone Foundation)
Hunnarshala Foundation
Conflictorium
Shrujan: threads of life.
UNICEF
Sufiyan Khatri, Master block printer.
Selected exhibitions:
Elle decor group show
Mahalakshmi, Mumbai, 2018
Living Lightly Exhibition
Mill owners association building, Ahmadabad
2017
PHOTO BRICS (BRICS countries)
Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Delhi
2016
Perception
State Museum, Bhopal, M.P
2014
Delhi Photography Club group exhibition,
India Habitat Centre 2013