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KIPA DABU :
What’s a “kipa dabu”?
Well, kipa means photo as well as in my mother tongue Nepal Bhasha, a local language of capital of Himalayan kingdom Nepal, KATHMANDU and word ‘dabu’ means platforms for public art in any kind of discipline, where peoples can gather and discuss and give a gracious comments each other.
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I believe on strong determination and clear idea and myself, assists me all the time to strive for the goal. Photographs of some of the senior photojournalist of Nepal impressed me very much at the time when I was almost unknown about my career. I made a decision to be a professional photojournalist.
Being just press -oriented I patricide almost all the beats and genres of photography. And, I sacrificed five years of the journey mostly for the media houses. In this period I worked in affiliation with the major publications and others.
I participated in various national and international photo exhibitions.
I had been restricted within the boundary and done nothing for the community. I realized later. And now I am freelancer photojournalist mostly in the field of social issues like poverty, conflict, social discriminations and human right and basically the issues of oppressed class.
In Nepal photography has not been institutionalized yet, but it can be only the easiest medium to show what is really happening in Nepal. It’s only photo that can tell the truth. And through photography we can do something for social awareness, justice and development by bringing out the information to the front of the world.
I believe on the power of visual media to dig out the truth for social change. And now onward I have determined to focus the lance for social awareness.
KIPA DABU 