Witnessing Change: Nepal’s Gen Z Through Photography and Collective Voices

A live Zoom event exploring Nepal’s recent Gen Z-led social transformation through photography, testimony, and collaborative dialogue.

An international group of artists, photographers, curators, and writers from Nepal, Japan, Canada, and Scotland will come together online and explore Nepal’s recent Gen Z-led social transformation through photography, testimony, and collaborative dialogue.

This online gathering will include presentations by Nepal-based photographers, discussions on collaborative writing and social memory, and conversations about how images shape the understanding of contemporary civic movements. Organizers describe the project not simply as a political discussion, but as an evolving international archive created through photography, testimony, and collective voices.

This event creates an international space to document, reflect on, and preserve a major moment of social transformation through the voices and images of the generation that experienced it directly.

Event is happening on Friday 26th June 2026 at the following local times:

Japan: 22:00
Nepal: 18:45
Scotland: 14:00
Canada: 07:00

Featured contributors include:

• Aawhan Rana — photographer based in Kathmandu. Contributed to Gen Z Power.
• Bijesh Shrestha — photographer based in Kathmandu. Edited and contributed to Gen Z Power.
• Bruno Bertini — based in Italy. contributor to Gen Z Power.
• Dominique Liboiron — writer and photographer based in Canada. Related article.
• Keijiro Suzuki — interdisciplinary artist, curator and producer based in Yamaguchi, Japan. Related article.
• Naoko Mabon — curator based in Oban, Scotland.
• Nepal Point, a space dedicated to photography in Kathmandu, who published Gen Z Power.
• Rejina Basnet — contributor to Gen Z Power.
• Rohan Shrestha — photographer based in Kathmandu. Edited and contributed to Gen Z Power.
• Saru — contributor to Gen Z Power.
• Srija Shrestha — artist and illustrator from Kathmandu, based in Scotland.

One of the core goals for this initiative is to preserve visual and personal records connected to Nepal’s recent Gen Z-led social transformation before those materials disappear or become fragmented. Many scholars and cultural institutions have emphasized the growing importance of preserving photographic archives connected to social movements and civic memory.

The organizers also hope to create a “living archive” that continues evolving through contributions from photographers, writers, curators, and participants across countries. Research on visual culture and protest movements has shown that photography not only documents events, but also shapes how future generations remember social change.

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