Author Archive
Hamra Hajurama (Our Grandmothers)
15 December 2009
Where better to begin a storytelling project than with the people whom we heard our first stories from? The grandmothers who shaped our earliest worldviews exist still, even if some of these remarkable women live only in our memories while others have been overshadowed by the hurly-burly of Naya Nepal. Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers is […]
Real people, real needs
20 - 24 June 2009
In collaboration with UNHCR, photo.circle curated and organized a mobile exhibition titled ‘home,’ by photographer Kashish Das Shrestha that traveled to all seven Bhutanese refugee camps in Eastern Nepal in April 2009. A larger exhibition on refugee situations around the world by 9 photographers including Zalmai, Christian Als, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Edwin Koo, Ashok Shakya […]
Closeness
23 - 26 May 2009
A four-day photo workshop by award winning Bangladeshi documentary photographer Munem Wasif was coincided with Traveling Chobi Mela V, an international festival of photography hosted in Kathmandu by photo.circle and was thus able to garner interest in the Nepali photo community. 8 photographers attended the workshop. The workshop was an intensive exercise that pushed participants […]
Traveling Chobi Mela V
22 - 28 May 2009
Project Freedom was designed to deliberate on ideas of ‘freedom’ through photographic and cultural exchange. It was a collaborative project with Chobi Mela, an international festival of photography held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kutumba, a Nepali folk ensemble and was funded by the Prince Claus Fund based in the Netherlands. In November 2008, photo.circle awarded travel […]
Home,
20 - 24 April 2009
photo.circle successfully traveled to all seven Bhutanese Refugee camps managed by UNHCR in Jhapa and Morang with “Home” a photo exhibition by Kashish Das Shrestha from April 20th- 24th 2009. Over 10,000 camp residents visited the exhibition over five days. ALSO READ Home away from home (Nepali Times, 13 March 2009)