History is made everyday, by people like you and me, through our daily actions, decisions and interactions. The history we learn in our schools, however, do not consider regular people as makers of history, but as mere spectators. Photo Kathmandu’s...
On November 1, a day after Nanda Kishor Pun, former chief of the Maoist’s People Liberation Army, was elected vice-president of the country, Thomas Borberg, photo editor-in-chief of the legendary Danish newspaper Politiken, went down to the local...
The Photo Kathmandu team is working round the clock to ensure that you experience the most of Kathmandu while you are here in town for the festival. And while you are here, you will not want to leave without some of our cool, cool merchandise,...
The first workshop in the series, “Translating the Voice: Explorations in Listening and Writing” came to an end on October 30. The four-day workshop, facilitated by Dr. Indira Chowdhury, focused on oral history and its production. On the first day,...
Philip Blenkinsop is a photographer who doesn’t show much. Published books? I only know of two: Cars that Ate Bangkok, a highly collectible rarity from 1996, and Extrême Asie, published in 2001 in Robert Delpire’s Photo Poche collection. Three, if...
Frédéric Lecloux, a Belgian-French photographer, first came to Nepal in 1994 to trek. He took many pictures as well, mostly landscape photographs of the Himalayas. Back then, he didn’t have anything concrete to say about the country – so the...
Despite all the stress that comes with organizing a photo festival, the Photo Kathmandu team had a great time producing a short promotional video. From taking time off to experiment with various props to discovering a natural actor on our own team...
If you’re attending Photo Kathmandu, and happen to have an appreciation for other forms of art besides photography, here is a selection of events taking place across the valley at around the same time that could perk your interest. This might very...
The decades-old Honacha eatery is usually bursting at the seams during lunchtime, with a press of people crammed into the cozy two-storey space. As one leaves behind the traffic of the bordering Mamaru galli and enters the narrow...
With Photo Kathmandu anchored in Patan, you will certainly want to explore the city and sample all that it has to offer. Patan is a vibrant city that is an amalgam of the ancient and the modern, much like most of the Kathmandu Valley. It is also a...