Gehendra Dhimal Foundation

17/08/2026

Somewhere in the Himalayas, documenting what he sees, one expedition at a time, Gautam Dhimal is creating a visual record of places, landscapes and moments that may look very different in the years to come. What you see here is only a few moments from a much larger journey.

Through Until We Act, we are building a long term visual knowledge system of our changing planet through aerial and land expeditions, high resolution photography and cinematic moving images across the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

With Location Nepal bringing decades of production expertise and Gehendra Dhimal Foundation as its custodian, this journey brings together experience, documentation and a long term commitment to preserving what we see today.

This is only the beginning.

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12/08/2026

Creating a fashion campaign in the Himalayas takes much more than arriving with a camera and beautiful clothes. There are locations, planning, production, people, challenges and countless decisions that all have to come together before the final image ever exists.

Himalayan Fashion Adventure is more than a fashion photography book. It is a look behind the frames and into what it takes to make a campaign happen in some of the most demanding landscapes.

Created for fashion designers, photographers, students and professionals who want to understand what happens beyond the final image.

A local fashion campaign, produced with the standards and discipline we bring to productions from around the world.

Gautam Dhimal

Himalayan Fashion Adventure | Location Nepal | MORPH Magazine

07/08/2026

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to places where water shapes life. Through my journeys across Nepal and the Himalayas, I have seen how everything is connected. We already know the Himalayans give birth to countless rivers, but we often forget how deeply those waters connect every life they touch.

Across Nepal, India, Bhutan, and the wider Hindu Kush Himalaya region, entire cultures, communities, farms, forests, and ecosystems have grown around this delicate balance. Yet that balance is changing before our eyes. If this continues, what will future generations inherit? More importantly, how will they truly understand what was once here?

At Until We Act, we are creating a long term visual archive of our changing planet. Scientists will always need data. Communities will always need knowledge. But future generations will also need to see what once existed. They will need high resolution and ultra high resolution photographs, cinematic moving images, and visual records created with the care and permanence they deserve. Images that become evidence, memory, education, and perhaps even hope. Images people will return to, not only to study the past, but to experience it. Because sometimes a single image can remind us what an entire report cannot.

Gautam Dhimal

Until We Act | Location Nepal | Gehendra Dhimal Foundation



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06/08/2026

There are places that ask for nothing in return except that you slow down for a moment. The mountains have their own rhythm. The forests have their own silence. Villages wake with the first light and evenings disappear into colours that never quite look the same twice. Perhaps that's why so many people fall in love with Nepal. Not because it tries to impress anyone, but because it never has to.
For filmmakers and photographers, that same feeling becomes an endless canvas. Every journey reveals another landscape, another face, another untold story. Remote yet accessible. Timeless yet constantly changing. Whether it is a feature film, documentary, television series, commercial campaign, fashion editorial, or photographic expedition, Nepal has a remarkable way of becoming whatever the story needs it to be.
For more than two decades, I've been fortunate to help productions discover these places and the people behind them. Every project is different. Every story deserves its own journey. If Nepal ever becomes part of yours, we'd be delighted to help bring it to life.
Gautam Dhimal
Location Nepal | Himalayan Fashion Adventure

29/07/2026

Sometimes, I feel climate change looks like these images I created in the brick kilns of Eastern Nepal.

We often witness climate change through melting glaciers, devastating floods, raging wildfires and other disasters that leave behind unimaginable loss. Every one of those stories matters, and every one of them deserves to be told.

And sometimes, it also looks like this.

A worker carrying another load under relentless heat. Brick by brick. Day after day.

For them, climate change is just another day of working long hours under any circumstance. Loads to carry. Stomachs to fill. And hope that their children might one day have opportunities they never had.
Over the last decade, I have spent countless days returning to them. I've shared cups of tea, laughter and long conversations with many of the workers. Most have travelled across the border for the season, returning home only when the monsoon arrives in Nepal.

Until I see them again.

28/07/2026

Playing in the water. Moving through the shallow edges. Finding curiosity in a place that many of us would simply pass by.

Laughing together without worrying about the time. This is what childhood still looks like here.

Only later did I begin to appreciate how much these quiet places really mean.

They feed families. They shelter wildlife. They hold water when the rains come. They become playgrounds, classrooms and livelihoods all at once.

As our climate continues to change, these ordinary landscapes are becoming more important than ever.

Conservation isn't only about protecting nature.

Sometimes it's about protecting the places where childhood and nature still grow together.

05/07/2026

Photographer Raju Bhandari shoots Large Format 4x5 sheet film for this stylized portrait of Gautam Dhimal

Back to where photography begins.

A single sheet of black and white negative film.

No screen. No instant preview. Just light, time, experience, and trust.

Photographed by Raju Bhandari on a 4×5 large format camera. Developed by Film Foundry. Carefully scanned at Gehendra Dhimal Foundation using a 102 megapixel medium format system to preserve every detail.

Film has a way of slowing you down. It asks you to think before pressing the shutter. It reminds you that patience is still part of the craft.

Design & Styling by Kripa Pandey.



Gautam Dhimal

Location Nepal | Himalayan Fashion Adventure | MORPH Magazine | Gehendra Dhimal Foundation

www.GautamDhimal.com

04/07/2026

Our Nippon Paint Production Story

One shoot. Two historic cities. Hundreds of moving parts.

Bhaktapur Durbar Square to Patan Durbar Square. One production day.

200+ local and international crew. 400+ extras. ARRI camera systems. Lighting and grip equipment from India.

Morning in Bhaktapur. Everything moved. Everything reset. Evening in Patan.

No delays. No compromises.

This is where experience makes the difference.

Planning. Permits. Logistics. Backup plans. Then backup plans for the backup plans.

This is what we do.

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