Vibhav Kapoor (b. 1999) is an Indian artist working with photography and printmaking.

Going to temples for a darshan, the act of seeing the divine, is common for more than a billion people living in India, a seventh of the world’s population. Darshan is also the Hindi word for philosophy that comes from its Sanskrit root drish meaning ‘to see.’ Any system of philosophy is a ‘point of view’ or darshan based in perceptual observation, intuition, and insight. Darshan's social influence is multifold – it is not only a religious act or metaphysical phenomenon but functions in vernacular language & culture to address the simple act of meeting or seeing someone; darshan addresses the mystical in the everyday. It is the act of channeling the ineffable through the material. Kapoor is photographing the landscape through the lens of darshan.

He studied Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence as an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine and then earned an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York in 2023. His work has been exhibited in India and internationally in the United States and France. He has been an adjunct professor of photography at the University of Dayton in Ohio, USA, where he is also the curator of Indian photography for the FotoFocus Biennale in 2026.

Tantric Yoni Etching

Yoni, 2024

5” x 7” Aquatint Etching