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Nepal by 6 young photographers

taherinima on 26. June 2022

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 editing workshop 2022

taherinima on 11. April 2022

By: Ellen Lande Gossner

After a month in the field in Nepal, Bangladesh and different European countries working on individual projects, the students returned for a five day online editing workshop led by Munem Wasif.

Munem Wasif from his intro lecture on editing principles.

The editing process was a part of the International Storytelling project 2022 for the 6 students from photo.circle in Kathmandu, 6 students from Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka and 9 students from OsloMet.

The week consisted of lectures on the editing process and different editing exercises. The participants edited and gave feedback to each other in groups.

Berlin-based Barbara Stauss, a photo director and founding member of Mare magazine, gave a lecture on editing work in editorial spaces.

Katrin Koenning showing images from her own exhibitions.

Katrin Koenning gave an engaging and personal artist talk where she shared and explained the various processes of editing in books and exhibitions.

The main questions for the students’ individual editing were:

· What is the story all about?

· Does the edit reflect the idea behind the story?

· Does the edit have enough visual variety or is it repetitive?

· Do you develop any logic for editing it?

Students and teachers meeting online for the workshop.

The five day workshop ended Friday April 1 with a an online presentation session, where each of the students had to critique another student’s work.