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Intro to Storytelling – July 2025

WORKSHOPS

12 June 2025

Call for Applications!

Intro To Storytelling | July 1st – 20th, 2025

Mentors: Sagar Chhetri, Uma Bista

 

Workshop Description 

This workshop aims to nurture a learning environment for early-career photographers who are technically sound in digital photography. Together, we will explore how photographers can engage with the craft of storytelling—through both the power of a single image and the nuanced process of building visual narratives using multiple images and text. Combining theory with hands-on practice, participants will be guided and mentored to develop an individual, photography-based story over the course of the workshop. Sessions will include lectures, in-class discussions, readings, media screenings, and thoughtful, care-ful critiques. The aim is to encourage each participant to reflect deeply on the stories they want to tell—and their own intimate relationship with those stories.

What will you learn?

  • You will learn the process of making a Visual story from start to finish.
  • The participants will learn about visual aesthetics.
  • The participants will learn about ethics in photography.
  • The participants will learn about a brief history of photography.
  • Participants will get to learn the basics of studio lighting techniques.
  • Participants will get to learn about digital workflow and post-production (Bridge, Photoshop, and lightroom)
  • The participants will engage in group reading and writing to enhance their knowledge of their craft.
  • You will learn the fundamentals of Photo Editing

When and where and how much is the fee?

Dates: July 1st – 20th, 2025
Timing: 10 AM – 2 PM (please note that most days the in class sessions could go beyond 2 pm)
Venue: The Yellow House, Sanepa (location in Google map)
Language: Nepali
Total number of participants: Max. 8

Fee: NRs. 15000 (incl. 13% VAT) (travel stipend is available to participants coming from outside of Kathmandu Valley)

Who should apply?

Participants having a good technical base in digital photography.
Participants should have their own DSLR cameras/equipment.
Participants should be able to commit to the workshop full time from July 1st – 20th, 2025. The nature of the workshop aims the participants to prepare themselves for active participation and thoughtful engagement with the curriculum of the workshop and give their all to the story they plan to pursue during the course of the workshop.

How to apply?

To apply, please submit this application form. (google form may require you to sign in from your google account)

 If you do not have a google account and wish to submit your application; please call Sagar at 9808380219 and you will receive an offline form and information regarding how to send your portfolio.

Please note that this workshop is open to Nepali photographers based in Nepal only.

Application Deadline: June 25th, 2025

About the Mentors:

Uma Bista is a photographer and visual storyteller. Her work focuses on social, cultural, environmental, familial, personal, political, and psychological perspectives on gender inequality and everyday experiences. She loves watching moving clouds and is passionate about exploring different places, meeting people, and sharing life experiences. Uma was honored in the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch 2019 and the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The Washington Post, and exhibited at Breda Photo Festival, Chobi Mela, Pen & Brush Gallery, Rubin Museum, and more.

Sagar Chhetri is a Kathmandu based visual artist and educator. He finds himself between denial and acceptance, between audacity to stop a moment in the pace of time and the curiosity of what lies in it; between the person and the personal; between politics, listening and observing the becoming of an image-maker, a practicing educator and an aspiring performer. He makes photographs to respond to the world around him. In his works he is often thinking about the identity struggles of the people, hopes and dreams of a revolution, fragmentation and skyrocketing prices of land. He graduated in the International Photography Program at the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Bangladesh. He received a scholarship from the Danish Ministry of Education to attend a semester on Photojournalism in the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark. In 2019, he received a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the South Asia Institute at Harvard University. In 2016 his work ‘Eclipse’ was recognized in Nepal’s Photojournalism contest. In 2018 he was one of the recipients of the Magnum Foundation Fund. In 2020, he participated in the 26th JoopSwart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo.