Photo Kavya 2011 - Call for Entries

Photo Kavya is an annual competitive photo exhibition organized by Nepalphotography.org to promote young and upcoming photographers. With a sole aim to bring the unseen and unknown photographers to a week-long “gala photo exhibition” this is the second year Nepalphotography.org has set out to look for young and talented photographers.

The basic requisite of entering Photo Kavya is good visual storytelling. “Kavya” means poetry, or prose – so what we’re looking for is photos that contain a story. However, out of all the entrants, we select only 10 final photographers who will exhibit their works in the Photo Kavya exhibition. After undergoing couple of rounds of interviews and selection, we pick the final 10 photographers and their 50 photographs that will grace the walls of Photo Kavya.

Eligibity Rules and Criteria:

1. Photo Kavya is free to enter by anybody possessing good photographs. However, after the selection, each exhibiting photographer will have to pay a non-refundable NRs. 6999/- as participation fee. Review meeting is free of charge.
2. The photographers will be selected on the basis of the quality of work. Although we’re targeting fresh newcomers, any interested photographer is eligible to participate.
3. By submitting their photographs to Photo Kavya, the photographer agrees to grant the permission to exhibit, archive and use the photograph in promotional materials or press articles.
4. The photographers will be called for a second round of meeting based upon the samples of the photographs submitted by the participant. Each participant should explain about themselves and their work in about 500 words and should attest not less than 10 photographs along with their submission email, which should be send to nepalphotography.org@gmail.com.
5. Once reviewed, the photographers and organisers will undergo another round of selection of photo and the exhibits will be finalized.
6. The final selected photographs will be put up on display in a reputed art gallery, accompanied by opening and closing ceremony.
7. Entry deadline is 15 February 2011.
8. All decisions made by Nepalphotography.org are final, and all disputes shall be addressed by the organisners, Nepalphotography.org.

Download the Call for Entries poster from here.

For more details and submission of your work, email us at: nepalphotography.org@gmail.com

6th Sense

6th Sense: Photo Exhibition by Mohan K. Duwal
2nd - 16th October 2010
Moods Studio Lounge
Bluebird Mall, Thapathali
Kathmandu, Nepal

Colours of Silence: Glimpses of Mustang

Colours of Silence: Glimpses of Mustang,
Photography exhibition by Italian Restorer Luigi Fieni.
26 September to 24 October, 10 am - 5.30pm,
Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Rivers of Pilgrimage

A photography exhibition by Kishore Kayastha, Bijay Gajmer, Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi, Prashant Panjiar, Dinesh Khanna and Ravi Agrawal

Organized by Indian Cultural Centre in collaboration with Siddhartha Art Gallery
14 September - 1 October 2010
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Cycle 4: Selfie Photography Exhibition

photo.circle.xxxvii - 21 August

This month, we are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Canada based photographer Surendra Lawoti.

Surendra Lawoti was born in 1972 in Panchthar, Nepal. He is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he teaches Photography as an Adjunct Faculty at Ontario College of Art and Design. He received his BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (1999) and MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2005) in Boston. He has received grants from Artadia, Somerville Arts Council, Community Arts Assistance Program Grant through City of Chicago and Ontario Arts Council. His work has been exhibited widely in Chicago and Boston in the US, in Toronto, in Medellin, Colombia and in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Surendra is interested in the dynamics of social class, race, gender, religion and sexuality and how that affects individuals and social groups in a given historical time frame. For his current work Don River, he has been photographing the landscape of Lower Don River Valley in Toronto, its residents and its recreational users. The work deals with the inglorious history of Lower Don, homelessness, socioeconomic disparities and effects on urbanization on the river.

Along with Don River, Surendra will show work that depicts the Nepali Diaspora that he made while he was in the United States. He will also share his personal experiences of studying, teaching and working in the field of photography.

Please join us;

Saturday, August 21st, 2010
9:45 am - 11 am
The Bakery Cafe, Sundhara

See you then!

World Photography Day

The life of food in Nepal

The life of food in Nepal
A photo exhibition organized by World Food Programme
10 AM - 7 PM | 21 - 25 July 2010
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bahini: Life of my Sisters.

Call for Entry

New Nepal?

Today’s Youth Asia (TYA)’s student in April 2009 attended as intense photographic workshop led by Danish photographer Stephen Freiheit and project coordinator Thomas Kurek.

Students worked with 8 topics within portrait and documentary photography: My City, My Dream, My Mother, My Neighborhood, New Democracy, New Generation, Religions and Women’s conditions in Nepal.

In September 2009 the exhibition was inaugurated at the Cultural House Kvarterhuset in Copenhagen, Denmark by Nepali Ambassador to Denmark, HE Vijay Kant Lal Karna. The Danish media welcomed the exhibition by publishing pictures and writing warmly about the artistic works of the young Nepali student of TYA.

The project is supported by The Danish Centre for Culture and Development (DCCD).

The exhibition “New Nepal?” is going on at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka

Cycle 3: Mist Photography Exhibition

BASOBAS

'BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha
edited by Angela Pellicanò techno 'Contemporary Art Gallery

ECHNE 'CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
Via correctors, 6
Reggio di Calabria, Italy

Show 'BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha edited by Angela Pellicanò
techno 'Contemporary Art Gallery

From 27 February to 14 March 2010, the gallery TECHNE 'Contemporary Art presents' BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha edited by Angela Pellicano.
The exhibition offers a glimpse through 27 shots of an anthropological and social Nepal seen from the objective of an unknown 'Nepali' (Man of Nepal).

The path Birman Shrestha has chosen is outside the tourist circuit and nothing and none of the persons proposed by him can be considered folklore as there is no representation or complacency of a people living a diachronic dimension.
The photographs come from a survey of Burmese territorial and the combination of time and of its authenticity.

There is construction but not randomness. Just wait, as we define the Nepali photographer, his career lasted five years.
His first exhibition in Europe, is only stop on his route in the West, will continue its project to deepen America where the techniques of photography.
Techno Contemporary Art with 'Basobas' continues the trilogy dedicated to photography began with 'Paradoxalvision' Margaret Crocco, an artist who works between Paris and New York and ending with a photo exhibition ever on the trip.
At the vernissage, which takes place February 27 pv at 17.00, will feature the artist.

Techne 'Contemporary Art Gallery - Via correctors, 6 (Palazzo ICFTU) Reggio Calabria
The exhibition will be open to the public from February 27 to March 14, 2010 daily from h.10, 00 to h.19, 00 (except Sunday)

Info:
0965-040268 - 339-1863561
tiellecommunication@gmail.com
angelapellicano1963@libero.it

Teresa Books
by TIELLE Communication Press Agent

NEPALPHOTOGRAPHY.org Magazine Issue #1

Issue 1 of NEPALPHOTOGRAPHY.org is out now. Have a look at the magazine below, or click this link to read it in Issuu.com.



Meanwhile, we're also working on the second issue of the magazine. The themes for Issue 2 are Me, Religion and Naya Nepal. Find more details here. Apart from submitting theme-based photos, you can also contribute your articles and photography-related news at our email address nepalphotography.org@gmail.com

Photo Kavya - फोटोकाव्य