This months photo.circle is pleased to present the works of;
Damber Krishna Shrestha of Himal Khabarpatrika who will be showing an exclusive feature story on Nepali migrant workers in Qatar.
Susheel Shrestha who will share with us his works from the Himalayan highs to the Terai plains.
Udipt Singh Chettry of The Himalayan Times whose amazing sports reportage we see in the dailies but never quite like this before!
Saturday, June 2nd
9:45 am sharp
The Bakery Café, Sundhara
We would also like to announce the inclusion of a number of previous photo.circle participants in www.majorityworld.com . Please visit the website to see the works of Dhruba Ale, Naresh Shrestha, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Ashesh Dangol, Suraj Shakya, Rajesh Gurung, and Sunita Dangol.
See you on Saturday!
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events.bn organises these monthly picture gatherings to share photo work and give/ receive feedback. we hope to have editorial and layout representation to make things more interactive. students, artists, storytellers, visual scientists and photo enthusiasts from all walks of life are welcome!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Seminar on career and scope of photography by photography professionals
Seminar on career and scope of photography by photography professionals. Learn photography in Nepal, Canada and Australia.
Venue: Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu.
11:00 am sharp, Saturday, 2064-02-12 (2007-05-26)
Organized by: National Photography, Contact: 2010742
Venue: Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu.
11:00 am sharp, Saturday, 2064-02-12 (2007-05-26)
Organized by: National Photography, Contact: 2010742
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Experiencing Baraka
By: Xeno Acharya
It does not take a genius to figure out we live in a beautiful world. The mighty Himalaya is a nice example of that. In cold winter mornings when the first rays of warmth flood the streets of Bhaktapur, heavenly beauty spreads over Kathmandu valley. Beauty that lies in the flames of burning butter candles in a monastery in Tibet. The silence of a Japanese garden talks about the peace that could have been. The womb of the massive volcanoes gives one a glimpse of nature’s might. The colorful lives of the aborigines in Africa, the Niagara Falls, the energy in the devotees in Jakarta all sing the tales of nature’s glory.
When the first Spanish invaders fell the mighty Brazil nut trees of the Amazon, thousands of dreams fell and shattered with it. Ugly buildings sprouted up like wild mushrooms, and people invaded the majestic hills and forests like vermin. Now the children of men linger in places where only the daring beasts once roamed. Factories buzz with low paid slaves, and the lives of men are reduced to a slow mechanical beat- click, ping, thump…click, ping, thump…click, ping.
The noise fades away, and silence. Human beings are the products of a technological advancement, clean healthy and almost perfect organisms manufactured to propagate and rule. The defective ones don’t make it out of the factory because it is hard to survive in this cut-throat world. And when the mind no longer can tolerate the growing pressure of this technocratic society, mass murders, suicide bombings and blind shootings result. To satisfy the thirst of an unhealthy soul hungry for love, we fall from the heights of humanity and succumb to mere pleasures of the flesh. War, the major outcome of this struggle for power and dignity has been in human history for centuries. Only we used to fight with stones and clubs, now we do with fighter planes and tanks and land mines. We used to fight for women and territory. Now we do for oil and money. We fuel the burning fire inside us with rage, hatred and the never ending desire for something more, better, bigger. And yet, in the dark corners of the world like Nepal and the South East Asia, people struggle each day for their subsistence. We are a hardy race.
Life has lost its color, dreams have no meaning and dragging is all we do with our lives. Dragging, a slow, dreaded inevitable and heavy dragging. And death seems just like yet another stop. So we run, we run for our lives, we run away from people around us, we run from ourselves. We run for the preservation of something that we dearly love, we run for life. But is life just this running, or is it something more?
Come find out this Saturday at St. Xavier’s Campus.
Project Baraka Details:
Film duration 96 min
Show dates May 19, 2007 Saturday
May 26, 2007 Saturday
Show times 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm
Ticket prices Student Rs. 50/- (with ID)
Regular Rs. 100/-
Venue St. Xavier’s Campus, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal
It does not take a genius to figure out we live in a beautiful world. The mighty Himalaya is a nice example of that. In cold winter mornings when the first rays of warmth flood the streets of Bhaktapur, heavenly beauty spreads over Kathmandu valley. Beauty that lies in the flames of burning butter candles in a monastery in Tibet. The silence of a Japanese garden talks about the peace that could have been. The womb of the massive volcanoes gives one a glimpse of nature’s might. The colorful lives of the aborigines in Africa, the Niagara Falls, the energy in the devotees in Jakarta all sing the tales of nature’s glory.
When the first Spanish invaders fell the mighty Brazil nut trees of the Amazon, thousands of dreams fell and shattered with it. Ugly buildings sprouted up like wild mushrooms, and people invaded the majestic hills and forests like vermin. Now the children of men linger in places where only the daring beasts once roamed. Factories buzz with low paid slaves, and the lives of men are reduced to a slow mechanical beat- click, ping, thump…click, ping, thump…click, ping.
The noise fades away, and silence. Human beings are the products of a technological advancement, clean healthy and almost perfect organisms manufactured to propagate and rule. The defective ones don’t make it out of the factory because it is hard to survive in this cut-throat world. And when the mind no longer can tolerate the growing pressure of this technocratic society, mass murders, suicide bombings and blind shootings result. To satisfy the thirst of an unhealthy soul hungry for love, we fall from the heights of humanity and succumb to mere pleasures of the flesh. War, the major outcome of this struggle for power and dignity has been in human history for centuries. Only we used to fight with stones and clubs, now we do with fighter planes and tanks and land mines. We used to fight for women and territory. Now we do for oil and money. We fuel the burning fire inside us with rage, hatred and the never ending desire for something more, better, bigger. And yet, in the dark corners of the world like Nepal and the South East Asia, people struggle each day for their subsistence. We are a hardy race.
Life has lost its color, dreams have no meaning and dragging is all we do with our lives. Dragging, a slow, dreaded inevitable and heavy dragging. And death seems just like yet another stop. So we run, we run for our lives, we run away from people around us, we run from ourselves. We run for the preservation of something that we dearly love, we run for life. But is life just this running, or is it something more?
Come find out this Saturday at St. Xavier’s Campus.
Project Baraka Details:
Film duration 96 min
Show dates May 19, 2007 Saturday
May 26, 2007 Saturday
Show times 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm
Ticket prices Student Rs. 50/- (with ID)
Regular Rs. 100/-
Venue St. Xavier’s Campus, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal
“A People War” – Photo Tour of Nepal discussion lecture by Kunda Dixit
“A People War” – Photo Tour of Nepal discussion lecture by Kunda Dixit at CSGN monthly lecture, 25th May, 0900 hrs onwards at Shankar Hotel, Lainchaur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Photo Concern-NFPJ Press Photo Contest 2007 winners
Awarded photojournalists with their trophies
A function was organized on May11, Friday to announce and award the “Photo Concern-NFPJ Press Photo Contest 2007″ winners. Winners of the Press Photo of the Year 2006 in 4 different categories are…
Sports: Udipt Singh Chhetri (1st), Tashi R Ghale (2nd), Prakash Mathema (3rd).
Environment: Sailendra Kharel (1st), Janak Nepal (2nd), Saligram Tiwari (3rd).
Feature: Ekal Silwal (1st), Chandra Shekhar Karki (2nd), Sailendra Kharel (3rd).
News: Rajendra Manandhar (1st), Rabi Manandhar (2nd), Sundar Shrestha (3rd).
All above winners were awarded plaque with Rs. 15000, 10000 and 5000. The Grand Prize of Rs. 50,000 and a trophy with the title “Press Photo of the Year 2006” was awarded to Sagar Shrestha.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Photo Concern – NFPJ Press Photo Contest 2007 and Exhibition
Photo Concern – NFPJ Press Photo Contest 2007 and Exhibition at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu from 11th – 15th May 2007. For more information contact: www.nfpj.com
Shahidul Alam in photo.circle SPECIAL EDITION
SPECIAL EDITION of photo.circle this saturday!
on
saturday, may 12th
10 am SHARP
the bakery café, sundhara
shahidul alam, world renown photojournalist and media activist is showing us a short film about chobi mela - an international photo festival held in bangladesh every two years. he will also speak about the drik picture library and how to market your work internationally.
those of you who are professional photographers should find this session highly informative. non-professional photo enthusiasts should also find it very interesting.
please come armed with questions! and please come on time as shahidul needs to catch a flight!
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Shahidul Alam was born in 1955 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied and taught chemistry in London where he obtained a PhD from London University. He started photography in 1980 and was nominated the best photographer of the year by the London Arts Council in 1983. He became the president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society. In 1989 he set up Drik Picture Library and "Pathshala" - South Asian Institute of Photography. He is also a director of Chobi Mela, the festival of photography in Asia.
Jury member of numerous competitions including World Press Photo where he has been a judge on four occasions, he was the first Asian person of colour to chair the international jury in World Press Photo history. Awarded the Andrea Frank Foundation Award and the Howard Chapnick Award in 1998 he has also been awarded the Honorary Fellowships of the Bangladesh Photographic Society and later, the Royal Photographic Society in 2001, for his contribution to photography. He is on the advisory board for the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the National Geographic Society. He is visiting professor of Sunderland University in the UK and Regent's Lecturer at UCLA in the USA.
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events.bn organises these monthly picture gatherings to share photo work and give/ receive feedback. we hope to have editorial and layout representation to make things more interactive. students, artists, storytellers, visual scientists and photo enthusiasts from all walks of life are welcome!
For more information: photo.circle
on
saturday, may 12th
10 am SHARP
the bakery café, sundhara
shahidul alam, world renown photojournalist and media activist is showing us a short film about chobi mela - an international photo festival held in bangladesh every two years. he will also speak about the drik picture library and how to market your work internationally.
those of you who are professional photographers should find this session highly informative. non-professional photo enthusiasts should also find it very interesting.
please come armed with questions! and please come on time as shahidul needs to catch a flight!
*****
Shahidul Alam was born in 1955 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied and taught chemistry in London where he obtained a PhD from London University. He started photography in 1980 and was nominated the best photographer of the year by the London Arts Council in 1983. He became the president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society. In 1989 he set up Drik Picture Library and "Pathshala" - South Asian Institute of Photography. He is also a director of Chobi Mela, the festival of photography in Asia.
Jury member of numerous competitions including World Press Photo where he has been a judge on four occasions, he was the first Asian person of colour to chair the international jury in World Press Photo history. Awarded the Andrea Frank Foundation Award and the Howard Chapnick Award in 1998 he has also been awarded the Honorary Fellowships of the Bangladesh Photographic Society and later, the Royal Photographic Society in 2001, for his contribution to photography. He is on the advisory board for the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the National Geographic Society. He is visiting professor of Sunderland University in the UK and Regent's Lecturer at UCLA in the USA.
*****
events.bn organises these monthly picture gatherings to share photo work and give/ receive feedback. we hope to have editorial and layout representation to make things more interactive. students, artists, storytellers, visual scientists and photo enthusiasts from all walks of life are welcome!
For more information: photo.circle
Monday, May 07, 2007
Individuality through Creativity
‘Individuality through Creativity’ a photography workshop and exhibition for visually impaired at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu from 5th – 7th May 2007. Contact: 9841- 275914
Sunday, May 06, 2007
One more day of “A People War”
A lady watching photograph at ‘A people war’ photo exhibition
Originally uploaded by Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka.
Find more about Nayan Tara photography at http://www.lightstalkers.org/
Find more about Kashish Das Shrestha photography at http://www.flickr.com/
“A People War – Photo Exhibition”
has been extended for an extra day due to the overwhelming response received in Kathmandu, states a press statement release by Nepalaya on May 5th.This means that instead of the exhibition closing on May 5th, it will be on for another day – that is May 6th.
Sixty of the most dramatic images from the pictorial book have been on display in 10 venues across the country for the past six weeks in a photo exhibition tour. Kathmandu is the last stop and the exhibition has been on for the past week at the Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal.
“This has been an inspirational experience for me, the people’s comments and feedback have added a new dimension to our initiative and made it all worthwhile,” the statement quoted Kunda Dixit, who curated the exhibition and envisioned the book, as saying.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Photo circle V at the bakery café, sundhara
Bikas Rauniar (Photojournalist: Kantipur, NFPJ president, and photo extraordinaire)
Anuj Chitrakar (IT professional, photo enthusiast)
Subel Bhandari (Y! Magazine, Voice of America, journalist genius)
on
saturday, MAY 5th
9:45 am- 12 noon
the bakery café, sundhara
events.bn organises these monthly picture gatherings to share photo work and give / receive feedback. we hope to have editorial and layout representation to make things more interactive. students, artists, storytellers, visual scientists and photo enthusiasts from all walks of life are welcome!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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