Vibhav Kapoor is an artist and educator working with photography and related media. His practice-led research through documentary image-making explores the themes of living traditions, essence, and the act of reciprocal seeing (darshan). He is Assistant Professor of Practice at O.P. Jindal Global University, where he teaches the history and practice of photography, visual culture, and aesthetics. He serves as the Assistant Director of the university’s Centre for Culture, Heritage, and Museum Studies.

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 recently exhibited for the FotoFocus Biennial 2026.