Kevin Bubriski

Kevin Bubriski (born 1954) is an American documentary photographer.

Life and career

Bubriski was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1975. He worked as a photographer for nine years in Nepal and has also photographed trips to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.

He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[1] the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council. Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] and the International Center of Photography, all in New York, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Yale University Art Gallery,[4] the Center for Creative Photography[5] in Tucson and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. In 2002, his work was included in a group exhibition about September 11 at the Library of Congress.[6] His book, Portrait of Nepal won the Golden Light Documentary Award in 1993 and his work has been featured in several publications, including the New York Times and the LA Times.

Bubriski was awarded the 2010-2011 Robert Gardner Visiting Artist Fellowship in Photography.[7] An exhibit of Bubriski's work, entitled "Shadows of Shangri La: Nepal in Photographs," was on display in Cambridge, Massachusetts from May to September 2014.[8] The show was sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the university's Asia Studies Center. The exhibition and its accompanying publication, Nepal: 1975–2011, have been featured in the Boston Globe, and Harvard Magazine.[9][10] Together they "document the dramatic evolution of daily life in Nepal, from its years as a Hindu kingdom to what [Bubriski] calls 'the current precarious peace'.[11]" Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe writes: "Bubriski’s images convey a sense of Nepal that feels strong, full, and nuanced.[12]"

Published works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/1959-kevin-bubriski
  2. ↑ http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=50763
  3. ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?&deptids=19&what=Metal&who=Kevin+Bubriski&pg=1
  4. ↑ http://artgallery.yale.edu/custom-search?keys=bubriski
  5. ↑ http://www.creativephotography.org/files/cg-b.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/911-docphotos.html
  7. ↑ https://peabody.harvard.edu/node/376?q=node/412
  8. ↑ http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/06/12/shadows-shangri-medieval-and-modern-nepal/CZsbV8ZiyK8kfCVW8cXpZN/story.html
  9. ↑ http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014/05/25/boston-area-list/enQorft1tWXBGcaKXgNs9L/story.html
  10. ↑ http://taunton.wickedlocal.com/article/20140727/Entertainment/140727226
  11. ↑ http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/07/curiosities-nepal-in-pictures
  12. ↑ http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014/05/25/boston-area-list/enQorft1tWXBGcaKXgNs9L/story.html

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