Uma Bista
Women Photograph
Gokarneshwor, Nepal
Uma Bista is a photographer, visual artist, and photo-educator based in Nepal. She uses the camera as a tool to tell visual narratives that focus on social, cultural, environmental, familial, personal, political, and psychological perspectives, on gender inequality and everyday experiences.
She graduated from the International Photography Program at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Bangladesh. Uma Bista has received the British Journal of Photography’s annual Ones to Watch 2019 and the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship in 2020.
Her works have been featured in national and international exhibitions and publications; including Rubin Museum, Growing Like a Tree: Sent A Letter at India, Breda Photo Festival, Chobi Mela, Photoville, Pen & Brush Gallery, Women of the World Festival, The New York Times, Le Monde, The Washington Post, Stern Magazine, and Caravan Magazine, among others.
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Still life
- Video capture
