Prasiit Sthapit is a Kathmandu-based visual storyteller, working across still and moving images. His work delves into the intersection of land, history, and politics. He has also been exploring the role of music on culture and movements. He is currently associated Fuzz Factory Productions, a multimedia collective based in Kathmandu, photo.circle, a platform for photography in Nepal and Photo Kathmandu. He is also the director of Fuzzscape, a multi-media music documentary project and one half of the Feather collective.
Exhibitions
Tell it Slant, Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2025
New Photography ‘25, Lines of Belonging, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2025
Photoville, New York, 2024
Habiter Ce Monde, Théodore-Monod African Art Museum, Dakar, 2024.
PhotoKTM5, Kathmandu, 2023.
Growing Like a Tree: Sent A Letter, Sunaparanta, Goa, 2022.
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, 2018.
Verzasca Foto Festival, Verzasca, 2016.
Dislocation/Negotiating Identity, Smith College Museum of Art, 2016.
Photo Kathmandu 2015, Kathmandu, 2015.
Photographic Society of Japan, Tokyo, 2014.
Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Zagreb, 2014.
Noorderlicht Photofestival,, Leeuwarden, 2014.
Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, 2014.
Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, Akkigalleria, Jyvaskyla, 2013.
Photoquai 2013, Musee du duai Branly, Paris, 2013.
PIX ‘Recovery’, New Delhi, 2013.
Kathmandu International Art Festival Kathmandu, 2012.
The Constant Change, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, 2011.
Awards and Grants
Recipient of Asia Arts Future (South Asia) Award 2024, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Awards, India
Recipient of Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Grant 2022
Second Place, Issue Reporting Picture Story, POY Asia 2021
Recipient of The Musee du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Photography Residencies 2019
Recipient of Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grant 2016
World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2016
Honourable Mention, New Generation Prize, Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant 2014
Publication
Aperture Magazine, FOAM, The Record Nepal, Sky News, The Caravan, British Journal of Photography, National Geographic, Vice Magazine, Vice World News, Helsingin Sanomat, Himal Southasian, The Kathmandu Post, Outside Magazine, Raw View, European Photography Magazine, Kamana Saptahik, The Nepali Times, etc.
