Profile
Kunga Tashi Lepcha is a visual artist and consultant photographer with UNICEF, based in India. Kunga's practice centers on documentary photography, research, and archival storytelling, increasingly incorporating sound, text, and film to explore identity, memory, and space. Drawing from lived experience, he reimagines the social, spiritual, and ecological fabric of the Himalayas, documenting stories from Northeast India—a region often misrepresented within mainstream narratives. Through his work, he seeks to decolonize representation and offer alternative ways of seeing and sharing local histories.
Kunga is the co-founder of The Confluence Collective, a platform dedicated to preserving ancestral histories and building localized Himalayan archives. His practice is grounded in care, reciprocity, and long-term community relationships, shaped by early work at Echostream and projects with youth subcultures in Gangtok. As a member of the Indigenous Lepcha community, he collaborates with elders, activists, and cultural practitioners to reconnect with ancestral knowledge. His current work combines photography, archiving, and community engagement to address environmental crises through Indigenous cosmologies.
