Vikesh Kapoor

Los Angeles, California
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Vikesh Kapoor is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the American Dream across photography, moving image, music, and poetry. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. He is a 2026 PhotoWork Foundation Senior Fellow, Film Photo Award recipient, and PEN America Emerging Voices and McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) workshop alumnus.

Project: Hello, my soft corner!

This project is a photobook that takes its title from the salutation of a love letter my mother wrote my father during their courtship.

My parents immigrated from India to a small town in rural Pennsylvania in 1973. I began making photographs there. Then, in 2023, my mother died. The book traces their life together and my father alone, continuing without her. It asks: What does the American Dream look like at the end of a life?

Since her death, I have been integrating my writing into the book, making visible forms of care and belonging that photographs alone cannot carry.