Lives and works in Kalimpong, India.

 

Brihat Rai (b. 1998) is a lens-based artist born and raised in Kalimpong, in the Eastern Himalayan region of India. Working with photography and occasionally with moving images, his practice is rooted in quiet encounters with memory, stillness, and emotional interiority. Across his recent works, he reflects on how personal histories intersect with landscape, ecology, culture, and the shifting socio-political conditions of the Himalayan foothills.

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Education

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2023-24

International Photography Programme (Resting Academy),

Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2020-22

MA Mass Communication,

University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India.

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Selected Workshops

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2018 /  A Day in Life: Kathmandu, Photo Kathmandu International Photography Festival Workshops w/ Anita Khemka.

2017 / An Introduction to Visual Storytelling w/ Prasiit Sthapit and Kishor K. Sharma, photo.circle.

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Exhibitions

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2026 / A Dialogue with Nature, Chennai Photo Biennale x WWF India Booth, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India.

2025 / This Seat is Reserved, KHOJ Studios, New Delhi, India.

2025 / HOME, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

2024 / All that Weathers, DrikPath Bhobon, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Grants/ Fellowships

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2026 / TBA

Other Professional Experience

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2026 / Co-curator, Bauko Dhuri Chhaina Father has No Roof Over his Head, an exhibition by The Confluence Collective as part of the Other Everests Project in collaboration with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), University of Lancashire, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and Deutscher Alpenverien, München.

2025 / Mentor, An Introduction to Visual Storytelling Workshop, Kalimpong, India.