Photo Kathmandu’s first evening screening in the old well, Mangahiti, at Patan Durbar Square.
The brand new photo festival Photo Kathmandu, arranged by Photo.Circle, opened on the 3rd of October at Kathmandu Museum in Patan. During the seven days’ festival there are lectures, debates and exhibitions all over the streets of Patan – plus outside evening screenings in a new place every night.
Morning crowd passing Kishor Sharma’s Exhibition in Patan at Photo Kathmandu. Picture by Søren Pagter.
At the festival former DMJX-student Kishor Sharma is exhibiting his story “Living in the Mist”, which he worked on both during a DMJX master class in Nepal in 2012 and during his final diploma project in the spring 2014.
Three boys discussing Kishor Sharma’s “Living in the Mist” exhibition at Photo Kathmandu. Picture by Søren Pagter.
All the exhibitions at Photo Kathmandu show pictures from and about Nepal – made both by local and by foreign photographers.
Photo Kathmandu is a truly public event since most of the exhibitions are shown in the streets or in the parks in the old town of Patan, Kathmandu. The few exhibitions, which are inside are open to the public for free. Every day school children are guided around to the different exhibitions.
Local people watching the evening show at Chyasal in Patan, Kathmandu. The show was accompagnied by live local music played by a band of elderly men. Picture by Søren Pagter.
Local people watching the evening show at Chyasal in Patan, Kathmandu, where Emanuele Camerini’s “The Twelfth Night” was shown. Picture by Søren Pagter.
On Thursday’s evening screening Emanuele Camerini’s story “The Twelfth Night” was shown. Emanuele did his project as his final diploma project in the spring 2014. Also former DMJX-student Sofie Amalie Klougart will have one of her stories shown at the show on Saturday evening.
All the evening screenings are outside and for everybody. Thursday night the screening was at Chyasal – a local area of Patan and was seen by around 500 people – 90 per cent of them were locals.
Søren Pagter giving feedback and advices to Nepali photographer Mahendra Khadra. Picture by Photo Kathmandu.
Søren Pagter participated in Photo Kathmandu. At the first afternoon of the festival Søren Pagter showed work from different DMJX-students and the following day he gave portfolio reviews to Nepali photographers.
Søren Pagter editing Mahendra Khadra’s story about his grand father, whom he is living together with. Picture by Photo Kathmandu.