Vaibhav Kaul

Vaibhav Kaul
Born1991 (age 34–35)
EducationUniversity 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, painter, traditional vocalist, and cultural archivist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

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.[2][4][11][12][13] He has investigated socio-environmental change and disaster risk in the glaciated high-mountain regions of Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon and Sikkim in India.[1][12][13][14][15][16][17] His landscape art, visual geology and visual ethnography works have been exhibited and published in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.[3][18][19][20][21][22][23]

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.[24] 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.[25][26][27] 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.[28][29][30][31][32][33]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 "EXHIBITION - Glacial Mothers: The Numinous Realms of Annapurna and Nanda Devi". India International Centre. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Echoes from the Mountains". The Indian Express. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 "A visual ode to the mighty Himalayas". Deccan Herald. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Framing the Himalayan landscape". The Hindu. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Arresting charm of snow-clad mountains". Deccan Herald. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Glacial Mothers: Where Mountains Become Deities". The Luxury Chronicle. 2 June 2026. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "TALK - Artistic Explorations of the Himalaya". India International Centre. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  9. ↑ "Spring splendour celebrated with music and iftar". Times of India. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  10. ↑ "लखनऊ बायोस्कोप में दिखा साहित्यिक रंग: वैभव कौल के गीतों पर झूमे दर्शक". Dainik Bhaskar. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  11. 1 2 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.
  12. 1 2 3 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.
  13. 1 2 "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.
  14. ↑ "Unnatural Disaster: How Global Warming Helped Cause India's Catastrophic Flood". Pulitzer Center (with Yale Environment 360). Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  15. ↑ "Kedarnath debris flow disaster". American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "High up in the Himalayas, villagers live under the shadow of an unpredictable lake". Earth Island Journal. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "Namita Gokhale: The lure of the Himalaya is like a call to the restless soul". Hindustan Times. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Calling out to the mountains". The Hindu. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  19. ↑ "Photostorm: Women and their many worlds". PARI. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  20. ↑ "Picture essay: Moving with the glaciers". The Sunday Guardian. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  21. ↑ "Through the Doorways". The Indian Express. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  22. ↑ "Picture Gallery: Kumaon: In the Shadow of the Devi". Hindustan Times. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  23. ↑ "Exploring Kumaon through its art, craftsmanship and woodwork (Book Review)". Business Standard. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  24. ↑ "Festival Schedule: Facing the Mountain (Harrison and Kaul, 2016)". New York Indian Film Festival 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  25. ↑ "Official Selection: An Awakening (UK, 2017)". Kendal Mountain Festival 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  26. ↑ "ShAFF 2019 Official Selection: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time". Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  27. ↑ "Best Experimental Short Film 2018: Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time". Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  28. ↑ "'Mountain, Priest, Son': Himalayan ethnographic documentary". Festival of the Mind 2018. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  29. ↑ "Learning on Screen Awards: Winners 2019". British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  30. ↑ "Learning on Screen Awards: Meet the Nominees". British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  31. ↑ ""Горы, священник, сын", Индия" (PDF). Echo BRICS Film Festival. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  32. ↑ "PhD student wins international film prize with documentary Mountain, Priest, Son". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  33. ↑ "Best Documentary Short Film: Mountain, Priest, Son". South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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