Bunu Dhungana (b.1981) is an artist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She uses photography as a medium to explore and question the world around her. Her background in sociology informs her photographic work, questioning notions of gender and patriarchy. While her personal projects centre around gender, she has worked in a wide range of fields from visual ethnography, NGO/INGO work, to commercial and journalistic work.
Her work has been exhibited in Photo Kathmandu, Dali International Photo Exhibition, KunstKasten, Serendipity Arts Festival, and Mannheimer Kunstverein. She is associated with photo.circle and Nepal Picture Library in Kathmandu and is currently doing her fellowship at The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
Bunu Dhungana uses photography as a medium to explore and question the world around her. She discovered photography after leaving the world of academia and research. However, her background in sociology informs her photographic work. A graduate of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she is interested in questioning notions of gender and patriarchy. While her personal projects centre on gender, she has worked in a wide range of forms — from visual ethnography, NGO/INGO work to commercial and journalistic work. Her work has been exhibited in Photo Kathmandu, Dali International Photo Festival, Kunstkasten, Serendipity Arts Festival, and Mannheimer Kunstverein, among others. She is associated with Photocircle and Nepal Picture Library in Kathmandu, Nepal. Currently she is doing her fellowship at Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
Bunu is an independent artist based in Nepal.