Fair & Lovely: Beauty Lies in Nepal

Fair & Lovely: Beauty Lies in Nepal, a photo exhibition by Liz Lance

Indigo Gallery cordially invites you to the photo exhibition: Fair & Lovely, Beauty Lies in Nepal by Liz Lance on Friday May 29, 2009 at 5:30 pm
at Indigo Gallery in Naxal.

To be opened by the United States Ambassador to Nepal
Her Excellency Ms. Nancy Powell

For nine months, Fulbright Scholar Liz Lance has been submerged in a study of mass media affecting beauty, body image and femininity in young women in Nepal. She sought to understand the ways that mass media consumption has affected Nepal’s changing standards of beauty. Informed by years of academic research, many hours of interviews and relationships built with young women who shared their lives, Liz captured their ideas about beauty and body image in the photographs presented in this exhibition.

Three young women are highlighted in this exhibition: one from rural Eastern Nepal who struggled to survive alone in Kathmandu, with shifting body image and confidence levels; a young singer who ramps up her sex appeal for the benefit of a music career, though remaining a traditional Nepali girl at heart; and a record-setting professional mountain biker with a body that brought her success in a male-dominated field, hides her muscles to maintain her femininity. The explosion of beauty contests and beauty parlors across Nepal are captured, which suggests how women perceive empowerment through beautification and the associated quandary of exploitation.

This exhibition tells a poignant story of changing mores amongst young women in Nepal, without judgment, and with compassion.
Gallery hours daily 8:00am to 6:00pm
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About the Artist:
Liz Lance holds a bachelor’s degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has completed post-baccalaureate coursework in Nepali language, literature and culture at Tribhuvan University’s Bhishwa Bhasha campus in Nepal. Liz has also completed graduate work in documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and was a participant at the Missouri Photo Workshop in 2007. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake this photographic project. Liz begins her master’s studies in journalism at the University of Missouri in 2009.

Festivals of the Kathmandu Valley

Festivals of the Kathmandu Valley
An exhibition of photographs by Scott Faiia
15-29 May 2009
Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited, Kathmandu.

Chobi Mela V in Kathmandu

Mark your calendars - a photo feast is headed your way!

After an inspiring visit to Chobi Mela V in Dhaka, Bangladesh earlier this year, photo.circle is pleased to host

TRAVELING Chobi Mela V
International Festival of Photography
22-28 May 2009
NEPAL ART COUNCIL, BABAR MAHAL, KATHMANDU

The festival will include 12 exhibitions by artists from 9 countries. It will also include a range of presentations and workshops.

Workshop and presentation details are below. Register soon as seats are limited. Please make sure you submit all requirements with your registration.

We are also are in need for VOLUNTEERS! If you are interested to volunteer during Traveling Chobi Mela V, please email us.


WORKSHOP DETAILS


CLOSENESS: Workshop by photographer Munem Wasif/ Agence VU
Saturday, 23rd May 2009 to Tuesday, 26th May 2009 | 10 am - 4 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

Each day participants will meet from 10 am to 4 pm. The assigned topic will be "Closeness". Participants will make photographs of something which is very close to them, to their heart. They can interpret the word in their own way, conceptually. Photographs must be creative, personal and emotional.

* Open to professional photographers/ photojournalists.
* Submission deadline: May 18th 2009
* Submission requirements: Portfolio (in both print and digital) of 10-15 images.
* Registration fee: Rs. 2500
* Seats limited to 8 participants only
* Contact nayantara@photocircle.com.np for further details

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CURATING EXHIBITIONS: Workshop by A S M Rezaur Rahman, Curatorial Director of Chobi Mela V, Dhaka
Saturday, 23rd May 2009 | 4 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

* Registration deadline: May 20th 2009
* Registration fee: FREE

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USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL ACTIVISM: Presentation by Robert Godden/ Rights Exposure Project
Sunday, 24th May 2009 | 4 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

* Open to all

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EVOLUTION OF CHOBI MELA: Presentation by Shahidul Alam/ Festival Director, Chobi Mela V
Sunday, 24th May 2009 | 5 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

* Open to all

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UNDERSTANDING LIGHT, COMPOSITION AND YOUR CAMERA: Workshop by Bikas Rauniar, Photo Editor, Kantipur Publications
Monday, 25th May 2009 | 11 am- 1 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

* Open to entry level photographers
* Registration deadline: May 20th 2009
* Registration fee: FREE

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DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Workshop by Ashesh Rajbanshi/ Canon
Monday, 25th May 2009 | 4 pm
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal

* Registration deadline: 5 pm, May 20th 2009
* Registration fee: FREE

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