kevin bubriski

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER

BIOGRAPHY

K evin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council, Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle), which won the Golden Light Documentary Award in 1993, and Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (Inner Traditions), Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.

KEVIN'S RÉSUMÉ

PORTFOLIOS

Uzbekistan 01

Pakistan 2008 10

Demolition Derby 24

Pakistan 2008 07

Uzbekistan 02

Nepal 1975-2011

Venezia Carnival 09

Mugu Snow

India 2008 16

The American Streets 46

Early Kathmandu (1978)

Egypt 2006 03

Nepal 1975-2011

The American Streets 39
March 17, 2008

Venezia Carnival 30

Asia

The American Streets 32
DC, 2005

Boudhanath

Uzbekistan 16

Venezia Carnival 04

India 2008 07

The American Streets 21
Cop

Jumla Snow

Demolition Derby 13

Cuba - Havana 2015
Cuba - Havana November 2015

Venezia Carnival 01

Demolition Derby 21

Algeria 3

The American Streets 35
Sept. 11, 2006

Egypt 2006 08

Hopi Mesas Arizona 7

India 2008 11

Hopi Mesas Arizona 2

The American Streets 22

Algeria 2

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

Algeria 10

The American Streets 51

The American Streets 2

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

Egypt 2006 09

Uzbekistan 13

Asia

Pakistan 2008 11

Dumbara

Uzbekistan 17

India 2008 01

The American Streets 12

Demolition Derby 23

Egypt 2006 06

Demolition Derby 4

Demolition Derby 3

India 2008 13

Uzbekistan 12

The American Streets 30
DC, 2005

Venezia Carnival 33

The American Streets 25

Demolition Derby 7

Venezia Carnival 21

Hopi Mesas Arizona 1

Egypt 2006 10

The American Streets 28
DC, 2005

Uzbekistan 06

The American Streets 3

Father-Son Brickmakers

India 2008 08

Jumla

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

Pakistan 2008 04

Demolition Derby 17

Algeria 13

New Mexico 1981-83
San Gabriel Park, Albuquerque

Venezia Carnival 06

Hopi Mesas Arizona 9

Egypt 2006 02

The American Streets 36
March 17, 2008

The American Streets 34
Sept. 11, 2006

Uzbekistan 14

Venezia Carnival 23

Pakistan 2008 13

Uzbekistan 05

Venezia Carnival 12

Demolition Derby 25

Demolition Derby 19

Demolition Derby 16

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

Venezia Carnival 27

The American Streets 18

Demolition Derby 1

Hopi Mesas Arizona 5

The American Streets 14

Cuba - Havana 2015
Cuba - Havana November 2015

Indra Jatra

The American Streets 41

Algeria 1

The American Streets 31
DC, 2005

Pakistan 2008 15

Venezia Carnival 03

Demolition Derby 12

The American Streets 38
March 17, 2008

Venezia Carnival 19

Venezia Carnival 31

Algeria 11

Nepal 1975-2011

The American Streets 37
March 17, 2008

The American Streets 9
Capitalism, DC

Uzbekistan 15

The American Streets 8
Washington, DC 2002

Pakistan 2008 08

India 2008 09

Hopi Mesas Arizona 4

Demolition Derby 14

Venezia Carnival 28

India 2008 06

Algeria 6

Venezia Carnival 17

Uzbekistan 10

India 2008 12

Gosainkund

The American Streets 15

The American Streets 33
DC, 2005

Uzbekistan 07

Uzbekistan 11

Venezia Carnival 05

The American Streets 19

The American Streets 50

Algeria 9

India 2008 02

Pakistan 2008 12

Demolition Derby 11

Demolition Derby 9

Nepal 1975-2011

Early Nepal

Venezia Carnival 25

The American Streets 27
NYC, 2004

Venezia Carnival 02

New Mexico 1981-83
San Gabriel Park, Albuquerque

Venezia Carnival 10

Venezia Carnival 14

Egypt 2006 04

Pakistan 2008 02

Pakistan 2008 09

The American Streets 4

Demolition Derby 8

Venezia Carnival 20

Venezia Carnival 15

Early Kathmandu (1975)

India 2008 10

Venezia Carnival 26

Pakistan 2008 01

The American Streets 10

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

Uzbekistan 09

India 2008 14

The American Streets 5
DC 2001

Uzbekistan 08

The American Streets 11

The American Streets 13

Demolition Derby 5

Palace Museum, Kathmandu

Demolition Derby 15

Demolition Derby 20

The American Streets 48

The American Streets 7

The American Streets 17

Uzbekistan 04

The American Streets 42

Venezia Carnival 11

Uzbekistan 03

Demolition Derby 6

India 2008 05

Venezia Carnival 18

The American Streets 40
March 18, 2008

The American Streets 26
NYC, 2003

Lekh Dhinga

The American Streets 45

Asia

Demolition Derby 22

Venezia Carnival 24

Venezia Carnival 22

Demolition Derby 10

Demolition Derby 2

Venezia Carnival 13

The American Streets 49

Algeria 4

Venezia Carnival 16

Nepal 1975-2011

The American Streets 47

The American Streets 44

The American Streets 43

Outdoor Barbers

The American Streets 29
DC, 2005

India 2008 15

Venezia Carnival 07

The American Streets 6

Venezia Carnival 29

Pakistan 2008 06

The American Streets 23
DC, 2003

The American Streets 24
NYC, 2003

Venezia Carnival 08

Hopi Mesas Arizona 8

Nepal 1975-2011

Pakistan 2008 05

The American Streets 16

Pakistan 2008 14

Venezia Carnival 32

Hopi Mesas Arizona 3

Egypt 2006 05

Algeria 12

Pakistan 2008 03

Demolition Derby 18

Nepal 2005

Djerbahood, Tunisia 2014

The American Streets 20

Hopi Mesas Arizona 6

India 2008 04

Algeria 8

Royal Visit Jumla

Nepal 1975-2011

The American Streets 1

India 2008 03

Egypt 2006 01

Algeria 7

Egypt 2006 07

Pakistan 2008 16

Algeria 5

BOOKS

Our Voices, Our Streets: American Protests 2001-2011

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Foreword by Lucy McKeon, Afterword by Howard Zinn

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Legacy In Stone: Syria Before The War

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

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Kailash Yatra

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Text by Abhimanyu Pandey

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Mustang in Black and White

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Text by Sienna Craig

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Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos por Vida, ‘81–‘83

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Foreword by Miguel Gandert

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Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Afterword by Richard B. Woodward

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Maobadi

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

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Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal

by Keith Dowman, Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

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Nepal: 1975-2011

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

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Portrait of Nepal

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

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Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961

by Kevin Bubriski, Photographs by Michael Rockefeller

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Human Documents: Eight Photographers

Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb

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CONTACT

LINKS

Kevin E. Bubriski
129 Buck Hill Road, PO Box 559
Shaftsbury, VT 05262
(802) 442-4516
bubriski@sover.net

Gallery Kayafas
450 Harrison Avenue #61
Boston, Massachusetts 02118
P: (617) 482-0411
F: (617) 482-0213

Nailya Alexander Gallery
By Appointment
New York, New York
(212) 662-0474

KEVIN'S FULL RÉSUMÉ

education

Bennington College, Bennington, VT Masters of Fine Arts, 1997
Anthropology Film Center, Santa Fe, NM, 1981
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Bachelor of Arts, 1975 Magna Cum Laude

photography grants and fellowships

Hasselblad Masters Award, 2004
Visiting Fellow, CTAH, Williams College, 2001
Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, CO, 2001
Vermont Arts Council, Opportunity Grant, 1999
Guggenheim Fellowship, Photography, 1994–95
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, 1994–95
Fulbright Fellowship, Nepal, Research Grant in Photography, 1989–90
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Photography, 1988
Nepal Photography Project, Film Study Center, Harvard University, 1985–88

photographic collections

Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln , MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, IL
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Vermont State House Art Collection, Montpelier, VT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

teaching

Williams College, Documentary Photography, Winter 1993, 1996, 1999–2010
Union College, 2007, 2009–2010
Hallmark Institute, 2007, 2008 and 2009
Green Mountain College, Photography, 1998–2000
Bennington College, Photography, 1995–96
Harvard University, Introduction to Still Photography, Summer 1992
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Adult Institutes in the Arts, 1990, 1993 and 2003
Nepal Photographic Workshops, Fall 1991–1993

one person exhibitions

“Mustang in Black and White,” Norlin Library, Boulder, CO, September 2017
“Look into My Eyes,” VERVE Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM, Feb-Apr 2016
“Portraits of Nepal,” Bhai Dega Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 2015
“Nepal 1975-2011,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, Jun/Jul 2014 and VERVE Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM, Jun-Sep 2014
“Sacred Sites: Syria, Jordan, and Egypt,” Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, August 2010
"Himalayan Shamanism," The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, January-March 2010
“Japan,” Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, January 2010
“Portrait of Nepal,” Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy, December 13, 2008–February 25, 2009
“Nepal in Black and White,” Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, March–October 2008
“Nepal,” International Biennial of Mountain Photography, Aosto, Italy, August 17–September 30, 2008
“Molly Stark School Portraits,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, December 2007
“Nepal: Thirty Years 1975-2005,” Union College, Schenectady, NY, September–November 2007
“Bridging People/Bridging Cultures,” Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA, 2006
“Ninth Month – Ninth Ward” (two person show), Gallery 2306, Birmingham, AL, 2006
“Rocks and Ruins,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, September 9th–October 15, 2005
"Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero," Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield, VT, September 2005
"Tibet," Indigo Gallery, Kathmandu Nepal, February– March 2005
"Independence of Thought - Freedom of Speech," Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT, February–Nov. 2004
"The Tibetans and the Uighurs," Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT, Jan–Feb.2003
"Vintage Works," Flat Street Gallery, Brattleboro, VT, January 2003
“Looking at Ground Zero,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, September 2002–February 2003
"History Responds," New York Historical Society, New York, NY, July–September 2002
"Nepal and Tibet Photographs," Russian Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 2002
"Reflections of Asia," Kismet Gallery, New York, NY, October 2002
"Kashgar," Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, July 2002
“Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero,” Arts Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY, Feb–March 2002
“Elders of North Bennington,” Vermont Arts Exchange, VT, October 1999–May 2003
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, November 2001
"Butoh of Kudo Taketeru," President's Gallery, Bennington College, September-October 2001
Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC, June–July 2000
Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, CO, May 2000
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, August–September 1999
"Butoh," Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan Unversity, Spring 1999
"Tibet Photographs," ArtAsia Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1997–January 1998
"Butoh at the Crossroads," Flynn Theatre Gallery Space, Burlington, VT, Fall 1997
"Eastern Horizons," Left Bank Gallery, Bennington, VT, Aug-Sept. 1997
"Butoh — The Color Portfolio," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, August-September 1997
Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, AL, May–July 1996
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada, October–December 1995
National Arts Club, New York, NY, June 6th–July 16th 1995
"Family and Self Image," Elm Street Arts, March 9th–April 3rd 1995
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, January 18–March 5 1995
Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA, January 20–March 5 1995
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, July 1994–January 1995
Photo-eye Books & Prints, Santa Fe, NM, May–July 1994
Shannon White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January–March 1994
Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, December 1993
Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, November-December 1993
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 1993
"Introductions," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July 1991
"In Tibet," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The University Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; and Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1991
"Portrait of Nepal," Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, Fall 1991
"Kathmandu Valley," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 1990
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, January–March 1990
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, May–July 1989
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, April 1989
Port Washington Public Library, Long Island, NY, December 1988
"Portraits from Nepal's Himalaya," American Cultural Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1987
"Nepal 1985," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 1986
"Albuquerque," Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM, 1984
"Portrait of Nepal," The Interchurch Center, New York, New York, 1982 and Nick Potter, Santa Fe, NM, 1981

group exhibitions

"The Quality of Place: Photography, Space and Specificity," Bennington Museum, VT, June–August 29, 2009
"We Are Vermont: Contemporary Portraits in Photography," Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT, February-March 2008
"Far Sighted – Distant Lands, Peoples and Cultures," Albany International Airport, NY, October 2007–March 2008
"Representing America: Ties that Bind and Lines that Divide," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, December 2007
"A Mix of Six," Gallery 668, Battenville, NY, August 2007
"Hanging from the Rafters," Pownal, VT, July 2007
"In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India," The Asia Society, New York, NY, September 14, 2004–January 2, 2005
"New York, New York," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, January 2005
"Politics and Protest," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, October-December 2004
"Je t'envisage – Making Faces," Hayward Gallery, London, June 24th-September 5th 2004
Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne), February 5–May 23 2004
Culturgest, Lisbon (Portugal), October–December 2003
"Twentieth Century Photography: Recent Acquisitions," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January–July 2004
"Wanderers, Travelers and Adventurers: Images of Exploration from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, April 9–August 1, 2004
Gallery at Mumm, Napa, CA, September 2003–March 2004
"Masters' Exhibition," Hasselblad Center, Stockholm, Sweden, October–December 2003
"Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress,” Library of Congress, Roosevelt Building, Washington, DC, September 7–October 26, 2002
Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, September 13–October 27 2002
"New york after New York: Photographs from a Wounded City," Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, June–September 2002
"Faces," Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Fall 2001
"Annual Exhibition," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, June–August 1999
"Japan," Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Rutland, VT, June 1999
"Occupying the Street," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, March 1999
"Regional Selections," Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, July-Aug.1998
"Sacred Art: Sacred Beliefs," Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, MA, October-December 1997
"Memory and Mourning," University Art Museum, SUNY-Albany, September–November 1997
"The Working Community," Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, VT, June-December 1997
"Liberal Arts Lens," Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, October–December 1995
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, June–July 1995
"Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, January-April 1995
"Other Places, Other Times," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME, 1993
"Looking at Death," Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1993
"New Acquisitions," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1993
"Contemporary Photojournalism," ICP/Uptown, NYC, April–June 1991
"The New Expeditionary Photographer," University of Oklahoma, October 1989
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, August 1988
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February 1988
"Selections 4," Polaroid Corporation (traveling group show), 1988
"Generations," Smithsonian Institution (traveling group show), 1987-88
"Selections 3," Polaroid Corporation (traveling group show), 1986
"NYC x 5," Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1985
"International Photographers," Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1982
"Asia," San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 1982

photographic publications

Aramco World, "Miniature Painters of Lahore," June/July 2009
Aramco World, "Mushaira: Pakistan’s Festival of Poetry," Sept/October 2008
Aramco World, "Hearts of the New Silk Roads" (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan), January/February 2008
Aramco World, "A Cypress in the Sahara" (Algeria), September/October 2007
"Watching the World Change – The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11" by David Friend, pp213-14
The Montague Reporter, "Bearing Witness" by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, July 13, 2006
Aramco World, "Mt. Ararat for Sport" (Turkey), November-December 2005
The Explorers Journal, "Bali," Fall 2005
Himalayan Times, "Stark and Spare Bubriski" by Shweta Malla, March 19, 2005 page 10
Nepali Times #238, "Kevin's Eye" by Aarti Basnyat, March 11-17, 2005
ECS Magazine, "Tibet and Nepal: A Kevin Bubriski Retrospective," pages 52-57
The Kathmandu Post, "Kevin Bubriski: Return of an ex-PCV Photographer," February 19, 2005
Kantipur, "Kevin, Karnali and Tibet" (Nepali), February 18, 2005, page 15
Vermont Life, “Vermont Heroes,” Spring 2005
Hasselblad Forum "Masters Award - Kevin Bubriski," January 2005
Aramco World, "SUQ: Four Thousand Years Behind the Counter in Aleppo" (Syria), March 2004
Vermont Life, “Vermont Heroes,” Spring 2004
Art New England, "Tibet Photographs" by Brett Chenkin, June/July 2003
Photography in New York, "Visual Literacy" by A. D. Coleman, January/February 2003
Aramco World, "Agadez: Sultanate of the Sahara" (Niger), January/February 2003
Art New England, "Spotlight 9/11" by Barbara O'Brien, December/January 2003)
Boston Globe, 9/11 Arts Feature, September 2002
Los Angeles Times 9/11 Book Round-Up (Sept. 1, 2002); New York Post 9/11 Book Round-Up (August 4, 2002); American Photo 9/11 Feature (September/October 2002)
Gotham, Review with Interior Photos, September 2002
The Village Voice, "Pick of the Week," August 15 2002
DoubleTake, Special Edition World Trade Center portfolio, December 2001
Aramco World, "Kashgar" (Xinjiang, China), November/December 2001
Vermont Life, "Farming the Diversified Way," Fall 2001
Aramco World, "Beyond the Monsoon" (Malacca, Malayasia), July/August 2001
Aramco World, "A Gift of Ghazals" (Kashmir poetry), July/August 2001
Aramco World, "Sharing the Shade" (Gourma, Mali), September/October 2000
Aramco World, "Roots Deeper than Oil" (Baku, Azerbaijan), January/February 2000
Discover Magazine, “Elephants of Gourma” (Mali), Spring 2000
Aramco World, "Islam on the Roof of the World" (Lhasa, Tibet), January/February 1998
Aramco World, "Grameen Bank Micro Credit" (Bangladesh), Spring 1999
New York Times, "Kevin Bubriski" by Charles Hagan, July 7 1995
The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Portfolio - SADHU," November 2 1994
Camera & Darkroom, "Book Reviews," March 1994
Bowdoin Magazine, "Ears and Eyes of the Artist," Spring 1994
Los Angeles Tmes Magazine, "Himalayan Passage," November 7 1993
Photo District News, "In Print," October 1993
American Photo, "Time Travel: Kevin Bubriski's Nepal," November 1993
World View, "Book World – Somber witness to change in Nepal," Fall 1993
View Camera,"Working with a Master - Kevin Bubriski," May 1993
Summit "Nepal Portfolio," Spring 1992
The Explorers Journal "Nepal's Karnali Zone: Land Without Rice," December 1989
New York Times, "Faces of Nepal: Photographer in a Far Land" by Phyllis Braff, January 1989
Selections 4, The International Polaroid Collection, 1988
International Center of Photography 1988 Annual Report p. 43
American Way Vol. 21, "A Present Time Becoming the Past," July 15 1988
Zoom, Special Issue: "Images from Polaroid Land," November 1987
The Explorer's Journal, "Nepal's Vanishing Culture," June 1985
Popular Photography Annual 1985, (Nepal portfolio), September 1984

film and video work

"Frontline," PBS, "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero," 9/11 (portfolio of still images)
"In the Name of Shiva!" Hi-8 video, Kumbh Mela, India, 2001
"Seven Days in Tibet," Hi-8 video on Khampas of Gyalthang, Yunnan, China, 1999
"Willow Park Carnival," Hi-8 video (winner - Vermont Independent Video Festival 1997)
Catamount Access Television S-VHS Productions, July 1994–2000
"Swayambunath" and "Pashupatinath" VHS video productions, 1991 and 1994
"Mr. Mike is on the Mountain" (Nepal advisor), British TV Channel 4 London, England, 1989

overseas work

Helvetas/Integrated Development Systems (photographer/writer), Nepal, 1989
United National Development Program (photographer), Bangladesh, 1984
Nepal National Parks (water projects contractor), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1979
American Peace Corps Nepal (remote areas water systems technician), Nepal, 1975–1978
U. S. Antarctic Research Program (field assistant), Ross Ice Shelf , Antarctica, 197

photographic work

Mexico, Italy, Jordan and Syria, 2009
Pakistan, India and Ireland, 2008
Morocco, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, 2007
Egypt and Algeria, 2006
Kathmandu, Annapurna region and Everest Marathon, Nepal, 2005
Tuscany, Italy and Mt. Ararat and Anatolia, Turkey, 2004
Ireland, Peru, and Syria, 2003
Street Portraiture: NYC, Washington, DC, and Vermont Peace Movements, 2001-2007
Documentation of Nepal's Himalayan people. Coverage with 4" x 5" view camera and other formats includes: Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Gorkha and Manang Districts - 1984; Humla, Jumla and Mugu Districts (Karnali Zone) and central Tarai - 1985; Kanchanpur District (southwest Tarai) and Kathmandu Valley - 1986/87; and Janakpurdham (east Tarai) and Newari monuments of Kathmandu - 1988/90. Also: Tibet - 1987, 1993, and 1994 and Kumbh Mela (Allahabad and Benares) India - 1989 and 1995, Tibet 1987-1997

books

"Portrait of Nepal," ninety two duotones and text by Arthur Ollman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, Fall 1993 (winner of the Golden Light 1999 Documentary Book Award and 1994 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award)
"Power Places of Kathmandu," one hundred and eight color plates, text by Keith Dowman, Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT and Thames & Hudson, London, 1995
"Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero," seventy five duotones with afterword text by Richard B. Woodward, powerHouse Books, 2002
"Michael Rockefeller – New Guinea Photographs, 1961," - author and curator, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2006 (ForeWord Magazine, Book of the Year Awards BRONZE winner in the Photography Category; The Independent Book Publishers Association, Benjamin Franklin Awards, WINNER for Interior Design 1-2 Color)
"Human Documents: Eight Photographers," photography editor, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2008

website

www.kevinbubriski.com

languages

English, Nepali

travel

Nepal, Tibet, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Korea, China, Mali, Niger, Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Peruvian Andes and Antarctica

Our Voices, Our Streets: American Protests 2001-2011

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Foreword by Lucy McKeon, Afterword by Howard Zinn The American street has always been the ultimate public venue for political and cultural expression. This collection of images by Kevin Bubriski covers a decade of American street protest that began on January 20, 2001 with the inauguration of George W. Bush and ended with Occupy Wall Street in October of 2011. The crowds in the street at the 2001 inauguration made it clear America was at a difficult and defining moment after a contentious election. Following the inauguration of 2001 and the tragedy of 9/11, the American streets— as they have been since the country’s founding—became the setting for numerous memorials and vigils, parades and protests. These photographs chronicle events in New York, Washington, D.C., and Vermont. The gatherings were large and sometimes small, and in both cases usually unnoticed by the mainstream media. These street portraits show a diversity of Americans: veterans, families of men and women on active duty, families of the victims of the 9/11 tragedy, parents of U.S. servicemen and women killed in the Iraq War, security personnel, police, Muslim Americans, anti-war activists, disenfranchised minorities, and anarchist youth. The common denominators that unite these images are the lens of the Hasselblad camera and the public stage of the American streets.

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Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

A collection of 100 black-and-white photographs taken throughout Syria in 2003, documenting many important ancient sites which are now no longer there due to the still on-going Syrian civil war.

Seven months after the start of the US war in neighboring Iraq, Kevin Bubriski was on two magazine assignments in Aleppo, Syria. At this time of conflict, he sought out assignment work in Syria because he wanted to photograph the deep cultural history there and the human face of Syria, its ordinary people and their daily lives.

Until the Syrian civil war started in 2010 the Aleppo, the Suq was considered to be the longest continuously inhabited place of commerce in the world, for well over two millennia. The Aleppo Suq and many of the places captured in his photographs have since been destroyed in the Syrian civil war.

After his assignments in Aleppo he stayed on in Syria to photograph independently throughout the northern early Christian Dead Cities, the basilica of San Simeon, the Christian pilgrimage sites of Serjila, al Bara, Kharab Shams, Mushabak, Baqirha, Qalb Loze, Resafe, early Islamic sites near Raqqa, and the ancient Roman trade cities of Apamea, and Palmyra. He remembers the absolute solitude of being in these ancient cultural sites with only his Syrian guide. It was the rainy season, it was Ramadan, and there was a new war going on next door in Iraq. There were no other travelers at any of the places he visited except for a small handful of German and Russian tourists at Palmyra, his last stop before returning to Damascus to travel home.

There was an eerie sense of discovery to be in these places of such rich history and haunting beauty. He recalls holding his breath as he saw the ruins before him take shape on the ground glass of the analog film Hasselblad camera, and feeling very fortunate for being a witness to the beauty of the ancient monuments.

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Kailash Yatra

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski
Text by Bubriski & Abhimanyu Pandey

M ount Kailash is a holy mountain on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China. Over recent decades, this eerily symmetrical mountain, holy to Bonpos, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, animists and New Age seekers, has emerged as a globally important site for pilgrimage and tourism. This mountain lies close to the point where the borders of north India and western Nepal meet China. What has been relatively little known to the general audience is the central role that transborder interdependence has played in shaping the lives, livelihoods and culture of the communities residing in these borderland regions, in the proximity of Kailash.

In the monsoon of 2016, an international team of social scientists, artists and members of the local community undertook a difficult 300-kilometre-long trek from district Humla, western Nepal, into the Tibetan Autonomous Region, China. The aim was to document and understand the contemporary rhythms of livelihoods, material culture and perceptions of the sacred among the communities living along an ancient southern route to Mount Kailash, which had been in use for transborder trade and pilgrimage for several centuries. This book, studded with lush photographs, brings to life several individuals and scenes encountered during this expedition-stories of the past, of change, of aspirations, of the sheer beauty and vulnerabilities of life in one of the least accessible but most sacred corners of the world.

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Mustang in Black and White

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski
Text by Sienna Craig

M ustang, Nepal, is known for its vibrant landscapes – blue skies, vermillion-colored cliffs, fluted canyons of deep ochre. It is a tapestry of Himalayan culture and history, a social and economic crossroads for trade, tourism, and Tibetan tradition. Today, the people of Mustang are navigating significant transformations: from the impacts of climate change across this rain shadow landscape to the lived effects of outmigration on communities who have relied for centuries on agriculture, pastoralism, and their role as culture brokers between the Tibetan plateau and Hindu South Asia. Mustang in Black and White captures this area’s elemental qualities, revealing the enduring cultural foundations and shifting daily rhythms of Himalayan village life. Kevin Bubriski’s masterful black-and-white portraits of this place and its people are coupled with Sienna Craig’s thick descriptions of what is, and is not, seen through the eye of the camera. Against the grain of glossy, idealized images of Tibetan and Himalayan lifeworlds, Mustang in Black and White illuminates the quotidian beauty and cultural complexity of this region.

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Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos por Vida, '81-'83

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski
Foreword by Miguel Gandert

T his book is a photographic documentation of Hispanic New Mexicans (Nuevomexicanos) taken between 1981 and 1983 in Albuquerque and Santa Fe and in several northern New Mexico villages. While there is an insider intimacy to the photographs in this book, they have a gritty sense of reality that is neither disturbing nor challenging.

The people, whether looking directly into the lens or away from it, appear to be at ease with the photographer and his camera. Many of these photographs are timeless, while others are a time capsule of the early eighties in New Mexico. This collection will evoke nostalgia of the era and life in New Mexico "back in the day." There is also a universality about the images and time period that will appeal to wider audiences.

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Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski
Afterword by Richard B. Woodward

I n the weeks immediately following September 11, Kevin Bubriski made four pilgrimages to the World Trade Center site from his home in Vermont to witness and record the impact of the tragedy. Like so many who had experienced the events from a distance, Bubriski was driven to visit Ground Zero in an attempt to come to terms with the horrifying scenes reported on television and in the papers. At the barricades surrounding the site, Bubriski found people experiencing not only a remarkable sense of community, but also the deepest kind of personal reflection on loss and mortality.

Businessmen, teenage friends, families, young lovers, and visitors from around the world approached the site slowly, and eventually came to a full stop, planting their feet firmly as if to keep themselves from wavering or falling. Each visitor then began a moment of quiet reflection, staring off at the mountainous ruins of twisted steel and debris amidst an omnipresent swirl of acidic smoke. It was at this time that the reality of the devastation set in.

"[Bubriski’s] photographs are among the most shattering to come out of the event, and the quietest. By keeping his focus on the stunned faces of individuals within a crowd, he has captured a series of private moments within a mass demonstration of surging, national grief. Everyone in the city during those confusing days will recognize the look and remember the feeling all too well."

—Richard B. Woodward

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Maobadi

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

"I had heard much about the Maoists and the People’s War over the past fourteen years and I knew only the gruesome images of war from both sides of the conflict.

This collection of portraits lets us see individual PLA combatants and know each person’s name, district and age. Each portrait represents just a brief moment in the subject’s life, a moment after the war and after four years of cantonment life. And a moment before any final decisions had been made about the individual or collective destiny of the PLA combatants.

May this collection of photographs help all people of Nepal understand that along with the collective identities of ethnic, economic, geographical and political affiliation are individual lives in the balance."
—Kevin Bubriski

"Bubriski’s empathetic portraits of these young men and women...allow us to think about the meanings of past; they create a visual, historical record of a time of remarkable transformations in the history of Nepal. Perhaps they will also spark interest in understanding the motivations and lives of this young generation, and new ways of imagining a future for Nepal at a time of profound social and political change."
—Toby Alice Volkman

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Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal

By Keith Dowman
Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

A ward-winning photographer Kevin Bubriski captures in stunning detail the sacred places of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Noted scholar Keith Dowman provides history and commentary on the significance of the sites.

About the Author: Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris.

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Nepal: 1975-2011

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

P hotographer Kevin Bubriski has been visually documenting the country and people of Nepal since his first visit in 1975. Sent as a young Peace Corps volunteer to the northwest Karnali Zone, the country’s remotest and most economically depressed region, he spent three years walking the length and breadth of the Karnali, planning and overseeing construction of gravity flow drinking water pipelines. He also photographed the local villagers, producing an extraordinary series of 35mm and large format black-and-white images. For nearly four decades, Bubriski has maintained his close association with Nepal and its people. Both visual anthropology and cultural history, this remarkable body of photographic work documents Nepal’s evolution from a traditional Himalayan kingdom to a rapidly changing, globalized society. Nepal: 1975–2011 also offers an incisive and comprehensive look at the aesthetic evolution of an important contemporary photographer.

With an introductory essay by Charles Ramble, Director of Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and President of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.

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Portrait of Nepal

Photographs by Kevin Bubriski

A collection of fine art black and white portraits of the Nepali people and landscapes. Each large format print is well reproduced with broad tonal qualities.

"In the nineteenth century, the likes of Samuel Bourne and John Thomson lugged heavy gear halfway around the world to photograph the people and sights of exotic Asia. In modern times, Bubriski's motivations, methods, and results are virtually the same. Using a large view camera and black-and-white film, he poses the Nepalese with antique formality--always facing the lens directly--and, although greatly sympathetic, he evokes most clearly their exoticism. This backward-looking approach is the troubling aspect of what is in other respects a lovely book. Bubriski is obviously familiar with the country in which he has lived for many years, and he takes us beyond the Himalayan scenes stereotypical of Nepal to remote village life. His meticulous skill and very good eye yield a collection of rich, exquisite photographs, which he disposes into four sections corresponding to the main geographical divisions of Nepal. If they don't tell us much about change in Nepal, they beautifully describe its ancient, perhaps eternal, aspects." - Gretchen Garner, from Booklist

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Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961

2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Third Place Winner, Photography Category
Winner of 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award Interior Design 1-2 Color, Independent Book Publishers Association

F rom April to August 1961, recent Harvard graduate Michael Clark Rockefeller was a sound recordist and still photographer on a remarkable multidisciplinary expedition to the Dani people of highland New Guinea. In five short months he produced a wonderful body of work, including over 4,000 black-and-white negatives.

In this catalogue, photographer Kevin Bubriski explores Rockefeller’s journey into the culture and community of the Dani and into rapport with the people whose lives he chronicled. The book reveals not only the young photographer’s growing fluency in the language of the camera, but also the development of his personal way of seeing the Dani world around him. Although Rockefeller’s life was cut tragically short on an expedition to the Asmat in the fall of 1961, his photographs are as vivid today as they were the moment they were made.

Featuring over 75 photographs, this beautiful volume is the first publication of a substantial body of Michael Rockefeller’s visual legacy. Rockefeller’s extraordinary photographs reveal both the resilient spirit of the Dani people and the anthropological and aesthetic eye of a young man full of promise. In a Foreword, Robert Gardner provides a personal recollection of Michael Rockefeller’s experience in the New Guinea highlands.

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Human Documents: Eight Photographers

Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb

I n Human Documents, Robert Gardner introduces the work of photographers with whom he has worked over a period of nearly fifty years under the auspices of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Their images achieve the status of what Gardner calls "human documents": visual evidence that testifies to our shared humanity. In images and words, the book adds to the already significant literature on photography and filmmaking as ways to gather both fact and insight into the human condition. In nearly 100 images spanning geographies and cultures including India, New Guinea, Ethiopia, and the United States, Human Documents demonstrates the important role photography can play in furthering our understanding of human nature and connecting people through an almost universal visual language.

Author and cultural critic Eliot Weinberger contributes the essay "Photography and Anthropology (A Contact Sheet)," in which he provides a new and intriguing context for viewing and thinking about the images presented here.

With photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Gardner, Adelaide de Menil, Kevin Bubriski, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb.

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