Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Nepal?

New Nepal? by Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka
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

Monday, March 08, 2010

Cycle 3: Mist Photography Exhibition

Cycle 3 Mist @ NEPALPHOTOGRAPHY.org

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

Sunday, January 03, 2010

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

Photo Kavya - फोटोकाव्य by Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers

photo.circle is pleased to invite you to the book launch and exhibition opening of

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers

11 am | Friday, December 18th 2009
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Some of the featured grandmothers have arrived in Kathmandu and are eager to meet their audience!
For project updates please visit www.hajurama.org.np

The exhibition is on till 25 December from 10 AM - 6 PM

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers is a storytelling project using the primary mediums of photography and text. The project was designed to encourage writers and photographers to collaborate and produce work together. The 15 writers and photographers involved in Hamra Hajurama have fanned out across the country since May 2009, seeking voices and encountering a fascinating range of women with much to tell- not just tales of sorrow and injustice, but also ones of survival, dreams and hopes.
 
2006 - 2009 © NEPALPHOTOGRAPHY.org [ a Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka project ]