Culture
16 April 2024
Nepal Picture Library
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Established in 2011 in Kathmandu, Nepal Picture Library (NPL), by photo.circle, fosters an inclusive visual narrative of Nepali history. Treasuring over 120,000 photographs, it not only preserves but democratically shares Nepal’s cultural and social memory. Through collaborations with professionals across various disciplines, NPL enhances public engagement with history, nurturing a multicultural archive that represents Nepal’s pluralistic identity.
For When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor, the collective Nepal Picture Library presents an excerpted photo from their extensive archival work The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project (2023), accompanied by the publication of the same name.
To become public is to be seen and accounted for in the annals of history. The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by the Nepal Picture Library (NPL) shines a light on the transformative trek of Nepali women from the confines of domesticity to the openness of public life—a move from obscurity to memory.
This project, originally a multi-part exhibition, has evolved into a dynamic visual archive celebrating the history and feminist movements of Nepal. By chronicling the varied roles Nepali women have assumed— political activists, educational pioneers, writers, shapers of public opinion—this act of documentation asserts the significant contributions and presence of Nepali women in public memory. The glimpses presented in the featured photographs underline how embracing publicness has emerged as a central strategy in the feminist chapter of Nepal’s narrative.
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