Kunga Tashi Lepcha
photographer
Kunga Tashi Lepcha is an independent photographer based out of Sikkim, a state in the eastern Himalayas of India. His personal practice involves mostly working on documentary photo and research projects that explores with the notions of identity and space based often on his personal life experiences in context with the social, physical, and spiritual.
He is also the co-founder of “ The Confluence Collective”, a collective based out of Sikkim and Darjeeling Hills, India, founded in 2020. Which is a collective of photographers and researchers working together with their respective interests to create a common platform for sharing visual and oral stories of the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalayas. Through close engagement with the local community, they hope to build a strong creative and collaborativeplatform, fostering a culture of knowledge production and sharing from the margins.
Besides photography, he has also been involved in several filmmaking projects as a cinematographer.
Website :
https://www.kungatashi.com/
Instagram :
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