Confluence of Festivals Photobook

A visual journey through Nepal’s living traditions, captured with a minimal, story-first lens.

Confluence of Festivals is a premium photobook that brings together color, ritual, texture, and human presence in a way that feels both intimate and cinematic. Created for readers who value documentary photography, cultural storytelling, and thoughtful design, it is equally at home on a coffee table, in a studio, or as a collector’s piece.

“Confluence of Festivals: Temple Town to the World" is not just a photobook; it is a cultural passport and visual pilgrimage into the heart of Nepal's timeless traditions, living heritage of Nepa Dey: Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, and Lalitpur. This immersive visual anthology documents a decade-long journey of visual storyteller Youbesh Dhaubhadel, capturing the vibrancy, spirituality, and identity of a handful of festivals celebrated in the cultural realm of Nepal.

This photobook is a testament of an intangible step towards heritage preservation with Dhaubhadel’s role as a storyteller to let the world know about these festivals and preserve the culture that is thinning and gradually fading away. His images follow processions, dancers, priests, and everyday participants as they navigate joy and grief, faith and fatigue, continuity and change.

It is an ode to the Newah community and to all devotees, artists, musicians, and volunteers who transform the streets into sacred space: year after year, generation after generation. It is an open invitation: to see, to remember, and to join the festivals of the valley with humility and wonder. Heartily welcomed to Nepal to experience these festivals. 

Features a hardcover finish, high-quality printed pages, and a carefully curated sequence of images from festival moments across Nepal.

A beautiful gift for art lovers, travelers, and anyone drawn to Nepal’s visual culture.