Uma Bista is an artist based in Nepal. She uses the camera to tell visual narratives focusing on social, cultural, familial, personal, political, and psychological perspectives on gender inequality.
She is an alumnus of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Bangladesh; Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia; and VIIAcademy, France.
Uma was named in the British Journal of Photography’s annual Ones to Watch 2019 and awarded the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship in 2020. She also participates in the South Asia Incubator program (PhotoKTM).
Uma was a photojournalist for the local daily newspapers 2011-2021. Her works are published and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Breda Photo Festival, Chobi Mela, Photoville, Rubin Museum, Pen & Brush Gallery, and Caravan Magazine, and others.
