Vaibhav Kaul

Kaul is an alumnus of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Delhi, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society.^{[1][5][6][7][8]} He has investigated socio-environmental change and disaster risk in the glaciated high-mountain regions of Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon and Sikkim in India.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} His landscape art, visual geology and visual ethnography works have been exhibited and published in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]}

Kaul 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.^[21] 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.^[22][23][24] 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 amid rapid change in the Himalayas.^{[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]}