Himalayan photographer and geographer
Vaibhav Kaul FRAS FRGS [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Career
Kaul is an alumnus of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford , the University of Sheffield , and the University of Delhi , and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society .[ 1] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] socio-environmental change and disaster risk in the glaciated high-mountain regions of Lahaul , Garhwal , Kumaon and Sikkim in India .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] landscape art , visual geology and visual ethnography works have been exhibited and published in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20]
Kaul collaborated with the film director Ross Harrison to make Facing the Mountain , a 2016 documentary based on his research on change, risk, faith and resilience in the Himalayas .[ 21] An Awakening (2017) and Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time (2018), both poetic Anglo-Himalayan art films that he created with the cinematographer John Seddon as part of a video autoethnography experiment.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] Mountain, Priest, Son , an award-winning 2018 film based on Kaul's geographical research into the metaphysics of environmental, economic and cultural risk amid rapid change in the Himalayas .[ 25] [ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] [ 31]
References
^ a b "A visual ode to the mighty Himalayas" . Deccan Herald . 29 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015 .^ "Framing the Himalayan landscape" . The Hindu . 3 May 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014 .^ "Arresting charm of snow-clad mountains" . Deccan Herald . 15 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014 .^ "Namita Gokhale: The lure of the Himalaya is like a call to the restless soul" . Hindustan Times . 9 January 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023 .^ a b Kaul, V.; Thornton, T.F. (2014). "Resilience and adaptation to extremes in a changing Himalayan environment". Regional Environmental Change . 14 (2): 683– 698. doi :10.1007/s10113-013-0526-3 . S2CID 53512874 . ^ a b c Kaul, V. (2019). "Holistically understanding and enhancing the adaptation of remote high-mountain communities to hydrometeorological extremes and associated geohazards in a changing climate". White Rose : University of Sheffield, 258 pp. ^ a b c Kaul, Vaibhav (2023). "Terrains of Transcendence: An Inner Geography". In Gokhale, Namita (ed.). Mystics and Sceptics: In Search of Himalayan Masters . HarperCollins India. pp. 285– 307. ISBN 978-9356295728 ^ a b "90 years in the Himalayas: From ground-breaking surveys to documentary films" . School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Retrieved 20 June 2022 .^ "Unnatural Disaster: How Global Warming Helped Cause India's Catastrophic Flood" . Yale Environment 360. Retrieved 29 June 2015 .^ "Kedarnath debris flow disaster" . American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014 .^ "High up in the Himalayas, villagers live under the shadow of an unpredictable lake" . Earth Island Journal. Retrieved 22 December 2014 .^ "Echoes from the Mountains" . The Indian Express . 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016 .^ "A remarkable photo of Kedarnath after the debris flow disaster" . American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014 .^ "The Himalayan Saga" . The Asian Age . 13 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014 .^ "Calling out to the mountains" . The Hindu . 27 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015 .^ "Photostorm: Women and their many worlds" . PARI. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015 .^ "Picture essay: Moving with the glaciers" . The Sunday Guardian . 9 July 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017 .^ "Through the Doorways" . The Indian Express . 18 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017 .^ "Picture Gallery: Kumaon: In the Shadow of the Devi" . Hindustan Times . 7 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017 .^ "Exploring Kumaon through its art, craftsmanship and woodwork (Book Review)" . Business Standard . 23 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017 .^ "Festival Schedule: Facing the Mountain (Harrison and Kaul, 2016)" . New York Indian Film Festival 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017 .^ "Official Selection: An Awakening (UK, 2017)" . Kendal Mountain Festival 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017 .^ "ShAFF 2019 Official Selection: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time" . Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Retrieved 8 January 2019 .^ "Best Experimental Short Film 2018: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time" . Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 January 2019 .^ " . Festival of the Mind 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018 .^ "Learning on Screen Awards: Winners 2019" . British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved 30 May 2019 .^ "Learning on Screen Awards: Meet the Nominees" . British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved 30 May 2019 .^ " (PDF) . Echo BRICS Film Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2018 .^ "PhD student wins international film prize with documentary Mountain, Priest, Son" . University of Sheffield. Retrieved 11 December 2018 .^ "Official Selection 2018: Mountain, Priest, Son" . Ooty Film Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2018 .^ "Best Documentary Short Film: Mountain, Priest, Son" . South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile. Retrieved 30 December 2018 . 
