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November 2024
PRESS RELEASE
photo.circle is pleased to announce that the sixth edition of PhotoKTM is scheduled to be held from November 14th – December 14th, 2025.
The upcoming edition of the festival will be a local+global coming together that focuses on the need for more critical south+south connections, to think and be together in solidarity and friendship.
PhotoKTM invites photographers and other practitioners who engage with or through the visual medium to develop, showcase and participate in an exhibition program, workshops and symposia, an artist residency, an incubator program for practitioners from across South Asia, a local arts education program for young people in the city, and various collaborative pop-up events among other core and collateral programming.
PhotoKTM is committed to the visual, to the public, to history as well as to contemporary practice in all its plurality, to artistic, political and ideological expressions and actions that disrupt and resist but also repair, and to creating time and space to come together to describe the world, and discuss the world with shared concern and agency.
What kind of community and collective imagination might such a coming together make possible? What prospects might this ‘we-feeling’ catalyze, despite or perhaps because of its ephemeral nature?
Each edition of PhotoKTM builds on these ideas of assemblage and collectivization. It platforms several collaborative artistic, research and pedagogic initiatives that attempt to feed into on-going local conversations and campaigns.
The festival is free and open to the public.
PhotoKTM is organized by photo.circle, a Kathmandu based transdisciplinary artist-led organization that creates resources for visual practitioners, researchers, educators, activists and other cultural producers. photo.circle also runs Nepal Picture Library – a digital archive that strives to create a broad and inclusive visual archive of Nepali social and cultural history.
PhotoKTM In the Press
Get ready for PhotoKTM 2023 – Kathmandu Post
PhotoKTM5’s visual extravaganza – Nepali Times
Going beyond the pictures: A local guide to Photo KTM 2023 – Inside Himalayas
Encounters with beauty and loss – Kathmandu Post
Photo KTM opens with focus on non-human world – The Rising Nepal
PhotoKTM5: The Curatorial Thought in Process – Danfe Arts
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