photo.circle announces an exciting 14-week masterclass with award winning Danish photographer Mads Nissen. The masterclass is designed for advanced photographers and photojournalists who are interested in storytelling through images. It will enable participants to become better at telling visual stories about personal subject matters. Participants will use photojournalism and documentary photography to discover, investigate and […]

photo.circle invites you to dig out those ancient albums and join us in this unique journey down memories lane. Photos and stories collected will be exhibited in the upcoming Kathmandu Literary Festival. THE HUNT: Find old family photographs! THE TASK: Write the stories behind the photographs! THE RESULT: An exhibition in Patan Durbar Square during […]

Picture this; you have old family photos at home lying in albums and/or dusty boxes. You may not recognize the people, the places, the times, the clothes, the hairdos, but you know there is a story waiting to be told. Come be a Nepali armed with photos and words, come tell these stories. Join Nepal […]

A one month introductory course in photography and visual storytelling. Course suited for beginners and emerging photographers. 28 FEBRUARY – 26 MARCH 2011 COURSE TIMING: Weekdays 4 – 7 PM Weekends 10 AM – 1 PM VENUE: Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka COURSE COVERS: Introduction and history of photography Basic techniques (camera and lens function, […]

World known photographer Jodi Bieber will be working in this unique master class with participants from Nepal and Finland. This 10-day master class is being organized by the Finnish Press Photographers Association and Photo Raw Magazine in co-operation with photo.circle. The goal of this 10-days workshop is to create an in-depth photo essay about a […]

A presentation by thirteen young illustrators who have just completed an exciting workshop on new interpretations to Nepali folk stories. The workshop was tutored by Chris Haughton and co organized by photo.circle and the Kathmandu University School of Arts. The thirteen illustrators young showing their work are Aditya Aryal, Bikash Amatya, Kanchan Burathoki, Mahima Bajracharya, […]

Photo workshop with Frédéric Lecloux, Agence VU French-Belgian photographer Frederic Lecloux will workshop with a group of 6-10 students to question the narrative and documentary interest of their everyday lives. By inviting them to change their way of looking at very simple things and events that happen every day around them, he will work with […]

Photo workshop with Tina Ahrens In the current Nepali media scape where photographers struggle to go beyond the single image and publications struggle to understand photography as more than event coverage but an actual language that can tell powerful stories, reputed photo editor Tina Ahren’s arrival is much anticipated. “Storytelling Through Images”, a four-day intensive […]

5-day workshop & reportage project Kathmandu is often still stereotyped with postcard images of durbar squares and prayer flags, despite daily evolution and redefinition on social, political, economic and other spheres. In the face of an overhaul of identity, many of us and many around the world choose to continue to see the city in […]

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 […]