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Vaibhav Kaul

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Vaibhav Kaul
Born1991
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University of Sheffield, University of Delhi
OccupationGeographer
Known forMountain research, visual art

Vaibhav Kaul FRAS FRGS (born 1991) is a Himalayan geographer, environmental scholar, photographer and painter.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Career

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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] He has investigated 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] His 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] He appeared in 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] Kaul and Seddon also made 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

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  1. ^ a b "A visual ode to the mighty Himalayas". Deccan Herald. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Framing the Himalayan landscape". The Hindu. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Arresting charm of snow-clad mountains". Deccan Herald. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Namita Gokhale: The lure of the Himalaya is like a call to the restless soul". Hindustan Times. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Unnatural Disaster: How Global Warming Helped Cause India's Catastrophic Flood". Yale Environment 360. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Kedarnath debris flow disaster". American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  11. ^ "High up in the Himalayas, villagers live under the shadow of an unpredictable lake". Earth Island Journal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  12. ^ "Echoes from the Mountains". The Indian Express. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  13. ^ "A remarkable photo of Kedarnath after the debris flow disaster". American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  14. ^ "The Himalayan Saga". The Asian Age. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  15. ^ "Calling out to the mountains". The Hindu. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  16. ^ "Photostorm: Women and their many worlds". PARI. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  17. ^ "Picture essay: Moving with the glaciers". The Sunday Guardian. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  18. ^ "Through the Doorways". The Indian Express. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  19. ^ "Picture Gallery: Kumaon: In the Shadow of the Devi". Hindustan Times. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  20. ^ "Exploring Kumaon through its art, craftsmanship and woodwork (Book Review)". Business Standard. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  21. ^ "Festival Schedule: Facing the Mountain (Harrison and Kaul, 2016)". New York Indian Film Festival 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  22. ^ "Official Selection: An Awakening (UK, 2017)". Kendal Mountain Festival 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  23. ^ "ShAFF 2019 Official Selection: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time". Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  24. ^ "Best Experimental Short Film 2018: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time". Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  25. ^ "'Mountain, Priest, Son': Himalayan ethnographic documentary". Festival of the Mind 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  26. ^ "Learning on Screen Awards: Winners 2019". British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  27. ^ "Learning on Screen Awards: Meet the Nominees". British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  28. ^ ""Горы, священник, сын", Индия" (PDF). Echo BRICS Film Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  29. ^ "PhD student wins international film prize with documentary Mountain, Priest, Son". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  30. ^ "Official Selection 2018: Mountain, Priest, Son". Ooty Film Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  31. ^ "Best Documentary Short Film: Mountain, Priest, Son". South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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