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Travel Photo Jaipur: An international outdoor and travel photography festival
31 Jan 2016, 04:44 pm
Jaipur, 30 (NITN): Between Feb 5 and 14, Jaipur will host the first edition of the Travel Photo Jaipur, an international outdoor and travel photography festival that will include 14 photo exhibitions, two special interventions and a series of talks by eminent personalities from the global photography industry.
The exhibitions and related events will be held in the Pink City's iconic Hawa Mahal, Amer Fort, the Albert Hall Museum, the former Jaipur Art School at Kishanpole Bazaar and the Concourse Hall; the festival's hub is the Jawahar Kala Kendra—a cultural centre built by the late Charles Correa..jpg)
Large-format photographic prints of well-known national and international photographers, including works of Gideon Mendel, winner of six World Press Photo awards, will be displayed across the city.
Representatives from Japan, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, US and Guatemala as well as from India will participate in the various talks.
Some of the panellists who have confirmed their participation are Thomas Seelig (co-curator Winthertur Photomuseum, Switzerland), Mauro Bedoni (former photo editor COLORS magazine, Italy), Yumi Goto (The Reminders Project, Japan), Rafal Milach (Sputnik Photos, Poland), Cristina de Middel (ICP Infinity Award - Publication 2013, finalist of Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, 2013) and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (founder of Centro de la Imagen, México).
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Award-winning production designer/art director and photographer Aradhana Seth brings her globe-trotting photo studio to Jaipur, and takes up residence at the Hawa Mahal. Seth, whose portfolio includes production design on films like Deepa Mehta’s Earth and art direction on Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited, started this project in her home studio and took it public for the first time at the Indian Summer Festival in Vancouver,Canada where it arrested the city’s imagination. The Jaipur edition has a special backdrop painted by a group of painters from Rajasthan, and will invite the public to be playfully depicted as travellers.
Akshay Mahajan will take over the former Jaipur Art School in Kishanpole Bazaar to create a site-specific exhibition, a homage to the vintage postcard, to its messages, and to how it shaped a bygone vision of journeys.
According to the organisers, this maiden venture will become an annual event, to be held every year in February.
Details of the programme and participants available on http://travelphotojaipur.com/.
Images: Travel Photo Jaipur/Facebook
1.George Osodi's Nigerian Monarchs make themselves at home at the Albert Hall Museum
2. Eunice Adorno's Flower Women at the Albert Hall Museum.
3. Siya Singh Akoi's Dog Show Project at the Albert Hall Museum.
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