Sailendra Kharel

Sailendra Kharel, (b. 1982) is a photojournalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal having deep interest in investigative socio-political human documentary stories. He started his career as a photojournalist in 2004, covering the armed conflict in western Nepal for the Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post, Nepal’s leading Nepali and English national dailies. In 2007, he completed his diploma in photojournalism given from IIJB, German. He is currently a student of BA in Journalism.

In 2007, he got an opportunity to take part for free to attend in workshopasia, a documentary photo workshop conducted by Jack Picano, Steve Coleman and Stephen Dupont in Kathmandu. In 2007 itself, Kharel won 1st prize in Environment and 3rd prize in Feature category in local Press Photo Contest (NFPJ).

His work has been widely published and exhibited in Nepal. Nationally and internationally, his pictures have been published in OGlobo (Brazil), The Alps Magazine (Switzerland), BBC Online, Tehelka (India), Himal South Asian, Kantipur Daily, The Kathmandu Post, Nepal Magazine, Himal Magazine, Nepali Times, A People’s War (book on Nepal’s Conflict), etc.

For him, “photography is an art of expressing human psychology through light”.