The Arts and Education program at Photo Kathmandu seeks to inspire people to explore the possibilities in visual literacy; orient educators and young ...
Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops ...
Alejandro Acín is a photographer, designer, editor, and educator based in Bristol (UK). He has wide-ranging professional experience and has worked in ...
Katrin Koenning is a photographer and an educator with a particular interest in people’s physical and emotional connections to their place and ...
Tanvi Mishra is a Delhi-based curator, photo editor and writer. She began her career as a photographer, and believes that her experience as a ...
Iona Fergusson is a curator and producer specialising in lens-based work. She worked for six years as Photo Editor for Vogue India in Mumbai before ...
Since graduating in photography from Pathshala – South Asian Media Institute, Tanzim Wahab has worked as an independent photographer and lecturer ...
Ilgın Deniz Akseloğlu is from Turkey and studied philosophy in Galatasaray and Sorbonne universities (BA). She worked as writer and editor in ...
Jeff Heimsath is a photo editor at National Geographic where he produces and
Kevin WY Lee is a photographer and creative director based in Singapore. He has worked in the creative industry in Asia and Australia for over 20 ...
Kesang Tseten’s documentaries have regularly screened in Nepal and in international film festivals including the International Documentary Film ...
Deepali Dewan shares her work with The Family Camera Network, a collaborative project that explores the relationship between photography, the idea of ...
Thank you for your application for the South Asia Incubator 1. We received a total of 88 applications for 10 spots and had a VERY DIFFICULT TIME ...
This four day intensive workshop is a deep and honest meeting point and think-tank for creative makers and communicators. People at various stages of ...
This workshop focuses on developing participants’ ability to create visual narratives. During the workshop, each photographer will receive extensive ...
Join Robin Hammond, an award winning photographer and founder of Where Love Is Illegal, on this 4 day workshop for members of the LGBTQI+ community. ...
Visual storytelling is a powerful tool to increase understanding of social issues and to advocate change. Whether you are interested in or already ...
There is more to photography than just the act of taking pictures. A lot needs to happen before and after a photograph is taken. This 3-day workshop ...
Tell impactful stories with moving images and sound. Expand your skills from still photography to produce short documentary films.
A common strategy in mobile photography workshops is to present tools and systems within smartphones and various social media apps and teach effective ...
We’re super excited to announce the final selection of artists for the Photo Kathmandu Residency 2018!
Ronny Sen received a 2016 Getty Images Instagram Grant for his project on the Jharia ...
Speakers: Dhruba Ale, Skanda Gautam, Devaki Bista
There are more people migrating for work now than at any time in human history. Nowhere is this movement of people greater than in Asia. Our ...
A walk through the PIX Nepal exhibition with featured photographers Shikhar Bhattarai, Tara Bedi (Nepal Photo Project), ...
Speakers: Kunda Dixit, Kim Hak, Azadeh Akhlaghi, Ishan Tankha
It is estimated that two billion photos are shared on social media like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp – every day. This panel will ...
A quarter century after his Burmese fathers death, his lost family stumbled upon his son Pablo
In this artist talk, photographer Yann Mingard and curator Lars Willumeit present the projects DEPOSIT and Seven Sunsets by Yann Mingard. The ...
How do you choose a story to to tell? What’s your perspective and angle? How do you make a sequence and build a narrative? How do you cope when you ...
“…in South Asia, though the future may not always look open, the past rarely looks closed” (Ashis Nandy). Nandy’s observation about the ...
In a typical bahal, houses are ringed around a courtyard. Within this open space a symbolic structure of collective resignation is often found – a ...
Speakers: Ashmina Ranjit, Tasneem Al-Sultan, Tayeba Begum Lipi
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The idea of a network and its scope - the evolving role of the practitioner and his/her field of reference - stands at the shifting horizon of viewer ...
Arijit Bhattacharayya, Julia Schuster and Catrine Val present how their works incorporate the idea of performance. The discussion will focus on how ...
Rajan Shrestha, Daniel Panjwaneey and Shimul Saha present how technology influences their creative practice. The discussion will focus on regional ...
Join artists Rupom Bhattacharyya (India); Catrine Val (Germany); Julia Schuster (Austria); Shimul Saha (Bangladesh); Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey ...
War can kill victims, but it cannot kill memories of the survivors. Memories should be kept alive, known and shared for current research of human ...
Clément Briend uses projections as the means to question the very practice of photography. Using projectors outdoors allows him to seek surfaces on ...
Sandra Calligaro and Jannatul Mawa will present on their works showcased at Photo Kathmandu 2016. Sandra Calligaro’s work "Afghan Dream" delves into ...
Instagram connects people with their passions, and with people who share their passions. From fashion to food, politics to Pilates - the platform is ...
This workshop aims to bring the non-conventional ways to animate. This is also a tribute workshop to Norman McLaren and his ...
Christopher Pinney has been researching popular visual culture in central India since the 1980s. In the late 1990s he published Camera Indica, a book ...
A photographic ethnography on Saudi women who have to face society in order to receive any recognition. Cultural stigma and social pressures are major ...
Photography in the last decade has undoubtedly become the most widely used tool of communication and artistic expression. The advancements in ...
A touching insight into a hidden world is revealed in photos taken by a group of young girls from Sindhuli who documented the restrictions imposed on ...
Projection photography connects reality to its projection, and space to its surface. Clément Briend uses projections as the means to question the ...
Kevin WY Lee is a photographer and creative director based in Singapore. He has worked as a creative professional for over 15 years. In 2010, he ...
Sohrab Hura was born on 17th October 1981 in a small town called Chinsurah in West Bengal, India and he grew up changing his ambitions from one ...
Before joining National Geographic in January 2016, Patrick Witty was the Director of Photography at WIRED, where he led the photography across all ...
Lars Willumeit (born 1974) is a German social anthropologist based in Zurich, Switzerland. As an independent curator, author, and photo editor, he has ...
Rishi Singhal was born and raised in New Delhi in the decades of 70s and 80s, which is when he picked up his first camera. In the early 90s he moved ...
Hannamari Shakya is a professional working with documentary photography and film. She is the founding editor of Raw View magazine, the documentary ...
An exploration of personal histories through photography
This three-day workshop is conceived as an intense communicative encounter for photographers and artists who are at the intermediate stages of ...
This workshop by Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA) in partnership with Photo ...
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
How can we maximize the impact of photography in our media landscape? This workshop is designed for editors, photo editors, desk editors, designers, ...
There is more to photography than the act of just taking pictures. A lot needs to happen before and after a photograph is taken. This 2-day workshop ...
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Søren Pagter is the head of the world-renowned photojournalism education at the Danish ...
Thomas Borberg began as a freelance photographer in 1993. In 1996, he studied at The Danish ...
Philip Blenkinsop has been described as “one of the most essential photographers of his generation” by Christian ...
Surendra Lawoti was born in Panchther in 1972. He received his MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2005) in Boston, USA. ...
A Bangladeshi photographer, curator and teacher, Tanzim Wahab continues to work on institutionalization of photographic practice especially new media ...
This 4-day workshop will train participants in the art of writing about oral history. Beginning with an oral history interview that urges the ...
This workshop invites young photographers to reflect on how they see the simple, regular objects and events that occur every day around them, and ...
Politiken is a Danish newspaper that has won several awards for its design, format, photography ...
This 4-day workshop will explore practical and conceptual approaches to critical commentary on photography. Its scope will be global, but its ...
Ever since the inception of photography and later, the moving image, visual media has been used to advocate for social change. Now, with visual ...
With 'Inheritance' the fearless collective explores fears and memories that are passed on from one generation to each other. Apart from homes and ...
Philip Blenkinsop has been described as “one of the most essential photographers of his generation” by Christian Caujolle. He is adamant that the ...
The Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) will be presenting a selection of student stories from recent years. From the daily life of a teenage ...
Photographer and human rights activist Robert Godden presents his latest project with writer Mei Chi So that attempts to tackle the discrimination and ...
Swiss Finnish-educated photographer Anne Golaz invites viewers to meet with a vacillating world. Using light and darkness in turn, Golaz creates ...
For a generation now, various researchers have studied the history of photography in South Asia. We begin this discussion by asking just how ...
Kevin Bubriski’s first visit to Nepal had been as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1975, a stint ...
The talk will begin with Sohrab Hura and Dragana Jurisic introducing their work and the photobooks they have produced. Their presentation will be ...
This talk will begin with a discussion of the history of World Press Photo and then move into an exploration of its present and future. The talk will ...
An Instameet in Kathmandu followed by a Pop Up DIY Exhibition
YU: The Lost Country is the outcome of Dragana Jurisic's journey around the former Yugoslavia, retracing the route of an extraordinary ...
This talk will be a public brainstorm on the way history and photographic documentations relate to each other, based on the work of three Ugandan ...
Modern audiences are drawn to the image, but the word has a longer history of acceptance in the literate world. How can writers and photographers ...
A discussion on the notion of time, repetition and difference through photographer Rohan Thapa's latest work entitled Pulse.
A River, So Long is part of a year-long collaborative documentary project combining photography, videography and text to create a visual narrative of ...
Sharareh Bajracharya and Niranjan Kunwar will be detailing the Nepal Picture Library's educational program, which was piloted in two private schools ...
Photographer Shailendra Kharel will be sharing his journey through photography and the process of finding his own voice as a photographer. He was ...
This event seeks to promote dialogue about the different ways that images were used and are being used in the wake of the April earthquake in Nepal ...
Showing the work by the following artists:
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL, THEME AND APPROACH
It all started in a sweaty gym in Lazimpat. Now, 15 cities, over 80 exhibitions, 400 images, some hits and plenty of misses later, Tuomo Manninen ...
In this talk Dr. Dhareshwar raises the question of why decolonizing the social sciences has not figured as an explicit agenda in India. Although there ...
"Photography, a pretext to address the road" is an illustrated talk by Belgian-French photographer Frédéric Lecloux. It is a voyage through twenty ...
Vino Bistro and Photo Kathmandu are proud to bring the Beholding History exhibition to Vino Bistro, Lazimpat during the first international photo ...
Alliance Française of Kathmandu and Photo Kathmandu are pleased to announce the AFK Students exhibition. It features the winning entries of the AFK ...
Kala Ghoda Café and Photo Kathmandu are proud to bring the Beholding History exhibition to Mumbai!
Vincent Gréby presents a series of portraits, all taken in Kathmandu in 2014. They are a testimony to those who aren’t living mainstream lives. The ...