Kunga Tashi
Kunga Tashi Lepcha is a visual artist and currently working as a consultant photographer with UNICEF, whose practice centres around documentary photography and research projects exploring identity, memory, and space. Drawing from lived experience, to reimagine the social, spiritual, and ecological fabric of the Himalayas.
He is the co-founder of The Confluence Collective; a group of scholars and visual artists focused on community building in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalayas.
Kunga has been awarded with the Magnum Heat Fellowship (2024), FICA Himalayan Fellowship (2023), and the Amiyaprabha Chaudhuri Memorial Grant (2019). His contributions span publishing and archiving—such as The Crafts of Uttarakhand book (2015) and Project Denjong a digitizing and archiving project, funded by the British library (2016). His work has been exhibited globally, including at Rencontres d’Arles, COP26 Glasgow, India Art Fair, FICA Himalayan fellowship Exhibition, New Delhi and featured in publications like Caravan, Marg, Indian Express, and India Today.
