Tenzing Dakpa

(b. 1985, Sikkim) For photographer Tenzing Dakpa “picture-making makes the world visible”. In his work he often explores spaces of comfort, which become a “repository for dialogues of alienation”. Dealing with narratives of returning Tibetan migrants, the photographer often returns to the hotel owned by his own family. Dakpa currently lives and works in Goa, where he moved from Rhode Island. His most recent work explores land reclamation, forest clearing, burning and the regeneration, as well as other ecological phenomena through images and sound-based installations. Dakpa’s photobook The Hotel was published by Steidl in 2020.

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Selected Works

Tenzing Dakpa

Weather Report, 2024, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata

Tenzing Dakpa

Monsoon at Muddovaddo, 2023, Archival pigment prints mounted with magnets, 45.3 x 56.6 in, Edition 1 of 4 + 2 AP

Tenzing Dakpa

Installation view, The Hotel, Indigo+Madder, 2020

Tenzing Dakpa

Night (The Hotel), 2018, Archival pigment print
28 x 34 in
Edition of 8 + 1 AP

Tenzing Dakpa

Weather Report, 2024, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata

Tenzing Dakpa

Monsoon at Naikavaddo, 2023, Archival pigment prints mounted with magnets, 113 x 86 in, Edition 1 of 4 + 2 AP

Tenzing Dakpa

Guest Relations, Courtesy of Jameel Arts Centre. 2024

Tenzing Dakpa

Hotel room study (The Hotel), 2018, Archival pigment print
28 x 34 in
Edition of 8 + 1 AP

Tenzing Dakpa

Weather Report, 2024, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata

Tenzing Dakpa

Manifest XX, 2023, Archival pigment print, 16 x 20 in, Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP

Tenzing Dakpa

Guest Relations, Courtesy of Jameel Arts Centre. 2024

Tenzing Dakpa

Holding On To The Interior (The Hotel), 2018, Archival pigment print
28 x 34 in
Edition of 8 + 1 AP

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