Vaibhav Kaul

Vaibhav Kaul FRAS FRGS (born 1991) is a Himalayan geographer, environmental scholar, photographer and painter.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He is a researcher at the University of Sheffield, an alumnus of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society.[7][8][9][5][1] Linking atmospheric science and geology to human geography and cultural anthropology, he has investigated socio-environmental change in the high-mountain regions of Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon and Sikkim in India.[10][9][1][11][5][12][13][14][15] His landscape art, visual geomorphology and visual ethnography works have been exhibited and published in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.[2][16][1][17][6][5][18][19][20][21][22] He 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.[23][24][25][26][27][28] 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.[29][22][30][31][32][33] 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 amidst rapid change in the Himalayas.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40]