International Visual Storytelling Program in Nepal

taherinima on 25. February 2025

The 22 nd collaborative international visual storytelling program is taking place in Kathmandu and Nepal in February and March, starting with a fiveday workshop February 10.

Ellen Lande Gossner

22 participants and four mentors from thre countries.

22 participants from Bangladesh, Nepal and Norway were preparing for their four week field trip working on individual documentaries. 8 students from Nepal, 8 from Bangladesh and 6 from Norway. Photo.circle was the organizer and host of the program, and Pathshala and OsloMet contribute with mentors. The project is supported by Norad through the collaboration with OsloMet to strengthen freedom of speech and journalism internationally.

The participants introducing each other the first day of the workshop.

Sagar Chhetri, Ashraful Huda, Turjo Mushfiq and Ellen Lande Gossner lectured and mentored the students in one to one sessions and facilitated group discussions. The students were very much engaged in groups discussions regarding storytelling, editing, journalistic methods and ethics. The aim for the workshop was to prepare the students for their travels all over Nepal. They will work on topics like healthcare for women, minorities, migration, religion and climate changes with the overall title for the projects: “Also This Will Change”.

March 17 the group and mentors will gather for an editing workshop to complete the program.

The workshop at Yala Maya Kendra in Kathmandu.
Dinner and dancing at the end of the week.
Walking down Kathmandu valley together.

Nepal by 6 young photographers 

taherinima on 26. June 2022

By Sagar Chhetri

The final showcase of 6 photo stories by 6 Nepali photographers at the international storytelling workshop this year took place in The Yellow House in Sanepa outside Kathmandu 22 April 2022.  

The event was hosted to showcase that the talented 6  Nepali photographers had given their heart and soul to bring out important stories from Nepal, the organizer photo.circle reported.  

This years participants – 6 visual storytellers from Nepal.

The participants were Priyanka Tulachan, Samagra Shah, Tulsi Rauniyar, Bijayabar Pradhan, Sonam Choekyi Lama and Rojan Shrestha.  

It was a special night, after a long time we hosted a public showcase and the audience turnout made it a successful event, according to the organizer: We were even lucky to have Shahidul Alam and Tanvi Misra in the audience. Their presence was encouraging and made the evening a memorable one. 

Shahidul Alam, Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2018.

Alam is the founder of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute and a Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2018. Misra works with images as a photo editor, curator and writer based in New Delhi in India. 

The audience made the evening a memorable one.

Photo.circle is a platform for photographers and the art community in Kathmandu, Nepal. The first direct cooperation with OsloMet and Pathshala was in 2010 and 2012. Since 2018, young photographer/photojournalists from Nepal have participated in the workshops in China and last year in Nepal. Photo.circle is the key organizer of the Photo Kathmandu festival in Nepal.

https://www.photocircle.com.np/

https://www.instagram.com/photocircle_np/

All photos by photo.circle.

Online International Storytelling Workshop 2022 

taherinima on 27. February 2022

By: Jon Petter Evensen 

6 students from PhotoCircle in Kathmandu, 6 students from Pathshala in Dhaka and 9 students from OsloMet have started the International Storytelling project 2022: 

An online start-up workshop lead by the Indian photo editor, curator and writer Tanvi Mishra together with the Bangladeshi photographer, tutor and curator Sarker Protick. 

At photo circle 4 Nepali students gathered in person to join the rest of the class for the opening week (16 – 20 Feb 2022) of the International Storytelling Workshop 20222. Whereas the rest of the 2 Nepali students joined remotely as they were already on the move for their fieldwork. PHOTOS by photo.circle.

From 15thto 20thFebruary the students worked on the story pitches, research, further development and preparation of the coming project and field work inspired and tutored by Tanvi Mishra and Sarker Protick. 

In the coming weeks the students will work on their individual projects and will meet again for the online editing workshop on the 28thMars. 

One of the regular meetings between Jon, Ashraf, and Sagar. The three are coordinating the workshop on behalf of their respective institutions – OsloMet, Pathshala, and photo.circle.

More information:  

https://www.photocircle.com.np/workshops/international-storytelling-workshop-2022/

https://pathshalainstitute.org

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/39137/tanvi-mishra

https://sarkerprotick.com/Bio