PhotoKTM 5 Residency @ Jatayu Vulture Restaurant, Kawasoti
18 Jan – 3 March 2023
Update: 2nd Jan 2023
We are happy to announce the PhotoKTM5 Residency participants!
Photo: Rajesh Lama
Ajay Narsingh Rana is a wildlife, nature and adventure photographer and videographer. Ajay also writes about nature and conservation on his blog prakritinepal.com as well as for local print media.
Ajay leads mountain bike trips across the Himalayas, works as a Wilderness First Responder for outdoor events, teaches Wilderness First Aid, works as an Elite National Mountain bike Commissaire for mountain bike races, and is a consultant for mountain bike events and outdoor programs. Ajay has also worked as a Coach for the National Cycling Team in Nepal for almost a decade.
Photo: Rene van der Hulst
Hillside Projects is an artistic collaboration between Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern based in Stockholm (SE). Situated within a conceptual framework their work explores tales of disappearances in the natural world and the interrelated socio-political narratives and existential questions that arise through these tales. Their work encompasses site-specific installations alongside lens based works, text, sound, publications as well as walking and performances in different formats.
Jonas Böttern (b.1977 Sweden), completed his MFA in Fine Arts at Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm in 2016 and has since participated in several postgraduate courses in public art, sound and publishing. Böttern is on the board for the Nordic Art Association and most recently has taken part in residencies and exhibitions at, amongst others, Röda Sten konsthall (SE), Bonniers konsthall (SE), Clark House Initiative (IND) and Dazibao, Montréal (CA).
Photo: Courtesy Artist
Nilanjana Nandy (b.1979) is an artist and educator. She draws, makes artist-books and sets up installations for people to collectively experience and exchange ideas. She is interested in gender-based issues, the impact of patriarchy in everyday situations, and in shaping young minds through canonical understanding of concepts. Her art making and teaching practices inform and impact each other.
She has a MA (Painting) from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. She has been part of artist in residence program at Pepper House Residency, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Sandarbh & Black box Project, Khoj Studios. Her project COVER-UNCOVER was part of Five Million Incidents supported by Goethe Institut & Raqs Media Collective. Her work was presented in exhibitions like Critical Constellations by FICA, Bartered Collections by Mumbai Art Room & CONA & Sarai Reader 09
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
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PhotoKTM in collaboration with Jatayu Vulture Restaurant and Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN) is pleased to invite lens based artists and educators for a 6-week residency based in Kawasoti, Nawalparasi.
Jatayu Vulture Restaurant is a community managed vulture restaurant. It is located in Kawasoti in Nawalparasi district in the buffer zone area of Chitwan National Park and was established in 2006. The estimated vulture population in Nepal in the 1980s was over one million. In the early 2000s, it was drastically down to around 20,000. Nine species of vultures are found in Nepal, among which four species – the white-rumped vulture, slender-billed vulture, red-headed vulture and Indian vulture – are listed as critically endangered, and others as highly threatened. The drastic decrease has been mainly attributed to the use of diclofenac which is used to treat animal disease. The Government of Nepal banned the use of diclofenac in 2006. The same year, Dhan Bahadur Chaudhary, a Kawasoti local, responded to the critical situation by establishing the first vulture restaurant and named it Jatayu Restaurant. This effort was supported by an organization called Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN). Jatayu buys old cattle such as cows and other livestock which have become an economic burden for the farmers and takes care of them until they die of natural causes. Then the carcass is fed to the vultures. The number of white-rumped vultures have significantly increased since 2014, largely thanks to Jatayu’s efforts. Learn more about Jatayu here.
PhotoKTM invites one lens based artist and one educator to spend 4 weeks in Kawasoti learning about vultures, community managed conservation models, resilience, loss and possibilities of regeneration at large. We invite applications from both individual artists as well as artist-educator duos. Participants can work independently but are highly encouraged to work collaboratively. The residency is designed to be a research residency and participants are not required to produce new work, but are welcome to share their findings and process during the opening week of PhotoKTM from 24 Feb – 2 March if they choose to do so. The residency will start in Kathmandu on 18th Jan 2023 where participants can settle in and prepare for 3-4 days, move to Kawasoti for 4 weeks and return to Kathmandu leading up to the opening week of PhotoKTM.
Important Dates
Application deadline – 20 Dec 2022
Selection announcement – 28 Dec 2022
Residency participants arrive in Kathmandu – 18 Jan 2023
Participants travel to Jatayu in Kawasoti – 21 Jan 2023
Residency at Jatayu in Kawasoti – 21 Jan – 20 Feb 2023 (30 days)
Participants return to Kathmandu – 20 Feb 2023
Rest + pre-opening prep in Kathmandu – 21 – 23 Feb 2023
PhotoKTM opening week in Kathmandu – 24 Feb – 2 March 2023
Participants depart – 3 March 2023
Eligibility
Support
How to Apply
To apply for this residency, please send us the following to submissions@photoktm.com with the subject line Residency Application;
Kindly rename all documents with your first name and the title of the document (Example:Meha _CV, Meha_Bio, Meha_Motivation Letter etc)
Please send all required application material in one email to submissions@photoktm.com with the subject line Artist Residency Application
Kindly ensure your email does not exceed 5MB
Application Deadline
20 December 2022
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Check out the last few editions of the PhotoKTM Residency: