“Patan is an incredibly rich urban landscape - both in terms of tangible but also intangible heritage; the patis that are home to evening bhajans, the local corner shops that sell woh, aloo, sukuti, choela. By locating a festival in the midst of this, by trying to weave it into the fabric of the Patan streets, we would like to both celebrate this urban landscape as well as draw attention to how it needs careful planning and preservation,” says festival director NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati of choosing the festival destination.
Eighteen print exhibitions showing works of both national and international artists, with the theme ‘Time’ will be on display. Organisers say each of the exhibition represents a chapter in the history of Nepal and are hopeful visitors will recognise themselves in these images.
“At this present time of great political and social transitions here in Nepal- we hope these stories will spark retrospection and reflection on our past, present and where we would like to head in the days to come,” says Kakshapati.
A curated walk through Lalitpur is also on offer. Besides exhibitions, the festival is also curating several workshops and talks on visual story telling. Pre-festival events began this week on Tuesday with a workshop on oral history writing by Indira Chowdhury, director of the Centre for Public History at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in India.
With over 45 international artists and many Nepali photographers from outside Kathmandu participating, the team has been forced to deal with unseen logistical challenges. However, the team is staying positive.
Says Kakshapati: “If people from places as far away as Belgium and Swaziland can make it, we figure, people from across town will make an effort to come to Patan.”
BIND Photobook Exhibition and Library by The BIND Collective. An examination of the relationship between the memories of visitors to the festival and the city of Kathmandu, with artist readings of texts by Janette Winterson, Hervé Guibert, Aveek Sen and others.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 5pm
Newa Chen, Kulimha
Change of course by Prasiit Sthapit
Prasiit Sthapit’s photographs of the village of Susta, calls for attention to this endangered settlement which once lay on the west bank of the Narayani River.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Chyasal
Everyday Epiphanies by Frédéric Lecloux
Photographer Frédéric Lecloux first came to Nepal 20 years ago, and says he finds a certain link between his own disorder and the one that characterises the towns and villages he keeps returning to.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Dhaugal-South Wall
Facing the camera: A History of Nepali Studio Photography by Nepal Picture Library
A look back at how royal painters-turned-photographers started studio photography in Nepal.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 4pm
Keshav Narayan Chowk, Patan Museum
History begins at home: Diverse narratives of young
people living in Kathmandu by Sharareh Bajracharya, Niranjan Kunwar and Nepal
Picture Library
Features artworks created during a pilot program of Nepal Picture Library’s ‘Retelling Histories Education Program’.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Adarsha Kanya Niketan School, Patan Museum
Hope for Tomorrow by Nicolas Marie and Swotha Community
Hope for Tomorrow tells the story of a community: the inhabitants of and others connected to the Swotha Square in old Patan.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Swotha
In the Shadow of Hope by Philip Blenkinsop
Philip Blenkinsop captures Nepal after the Royal Massacre.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Old Court House, Hakka
Juju Bhai Dhawa: Keeper of memories by Nepal Picture Library
Juju Bhai Dhakhwa’s photos capture the communal alongside the familial; a chorus of faces that repeat throughout the collection shows the fluid intersection between the private realm of the family and the public realm of festivities and excursions.
3 to 9 November, 12 to 4pm
Dhakwa House, Nagbahal
Living in the mist: the last nomads of Nepal by Kishor Sharma
A closer look at the lives of Rautes- Nepal’s last remaining nomads.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Twilako Tol (Adarsha Kanya Niketan School north wall)
North Fake by Maia Ruth Lee and Peter Sutherland The first collaboration between the husband and wife duo.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Pim Bahal
Patan Camera Obscura by Laura Diamond Dixit, Miku Dixit and Rene Fan
Using the principles of the camera obscura, the installation casts the inverted image of the void left behind the fallen temple of Char Narayan (destroyed in the April earthquake) into a room overlooking the square. The result: a view of the square that was impossible to see before the earthquake.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 5pm
Yala Guest House, Patan Darbar Square
Patis in Patan by Christiane Brosius, Rajendra Shakya and Sujan Chitrakar
A curated walk through Lalitpur.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Patan Darbar Square, Chakrabahil, Sundhara and Chyasal
Portraits of Nepal by Kevin Bubriski
Former peace corps volunteer Kevin Bubriski has been photographing Nepal for over 40 years and is known for his iconic black and white images.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Bhai Dega, Patan Darbar Square
The 90s: A democratic awakening by Bikas Rauniar
A reminder of an era that is all but forgotten.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
Dhaugal- East Wall
The Man from Limbuwan by Surendra Lawoti
This two-part exhibition traces the journey of two men – father and son – both men from Limbuwan who travel far from their ancestral hills of Therthum, in the eastern hills of Nepal, to the heartland of Nepali politics and to faraway places around the world.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 5pm
Image Ark, Kulimha
Time maps and memories: The Sumitra Manandhar Collection by Nepal Picture Library
Spanning the period between the 1960s and the 1990s, this collection of 900-odd photographs illustrates the various dimensions of life within the Manandhar family, Sumitra’s own experiences, as well as aspects of rural life in Nepal across the 1980s and 1990s.
3 to 9 November, 10am to 7pm
ZYU, Swotha
We by Tuomo Manninen
Finnish photographer Manninen’s group portraits are an intermingling of documentary and dramatisation.
3 to 9 November, 10 am to 7pm
Mulchowk Entrance, Patan Museum
WORKSHOPS
Photographing the Everyday
Writer and photographer Frédéric Lecloux will work with young photographers to build a meaningful photography story with elements that might change the way they look at their lives and their context.
30 October to 2 November, 9am to 2pm
Alliance Francaise in Kathmandu, Teku
Visual thinking in the editorial process
Danish photographer Thomas Borberg will conduct the workshop and discuss how Danish newspaper Politiken works with photo and other visual elements.
1 to 4 November, 9am to 2pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Writing Photography
This four-day workshop will explore practical and conceptual approaches to critical commentary on photography. Moderated by Christopher Pinney.
2 to 5 November, 9am to 2pm
Sundhara House
Using visual media for social justice campaigns
The workshop will investigate a range of issues and approaches to use images for social justice, explore issues of representation, collaborative methodologies, and how to best prepare a communication strategy.
5 to 6 November, 9am to 2pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Beyond the camera
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the basics of research, ethics, caption writing and digital workflow.
7 to 8 November, 9am to 2pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Inheritance
The Fearless Collective explores fears and memories that are passed on from one generation to each other.
7 to 9 November, 9am to 5pm
Patan
TALKS
Artist Talk: Philip Blenkinsop
4 November, 3 to 3.45pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Presentation: Students works from Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX)
4 November, 4 to 4.45pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist Talk: Strangers at Home-Migrant Domestic workers in HongKong by Robert Godden
4 November, 4.45 to 5.30pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Talk: Iraqi photography by Philippe Van Cauteren
5 November, 3 to 3.45pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist Talk: After an elusive world by Anne Golaz
5 November, 4 to 4.40pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: History of South Asian photography
Christopher Pinney & Tanzin Wahab, moderated by Pratyoush Onta
5 November, 4.40 to 5.30pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist talk: Kevin Bubriski
6 November, 3 to 3.40pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: The Journey of the Photobook Sohrab Hura & Dragana Jurisic, moderated by Nishant Shukla
6 November, 3.45 to 4.35pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
**Presentation: World, Press & Photo reflected by Micha Bruinvels **
6 November, 4.45 to 5.30pm Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Instameet
7 November, 9am to 12pm
Dhokaima Café, Patan Dhoka
Artist talk: Yu: The Lost country by Dragana Jurisic
7 November, 2 to 2.40pm
Baggikhana Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist talk: Why are you looking at me like that? By Andrea Stultiens
7 November, 2 to 2.40pm
Gaushala Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Talk: Living with photographs – being a collector by Isabelle Darrigrand
7 November, 2.40 to 3.30pm Baggikhana Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: Seeing comes before words, but who tells the story?
Alisa Sett, Sohrab Hura & Frédéric Lecloux, moderated by Rabi Thapa
7 November, 2.40 to 3.30pm
Gaushala Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist talk: Rohan Thapa
7 November, 3.40 to 4.20pm
Baggikhana Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist talk: A river’s tail by Gareth Bright
7 November, 3.40 to 4.20pm
Gaushala Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: Product vs Process
Ankit Suwal, Brianna Bartlet, Indu Antony, Ralph Smit, Sanjeev Maharjan & Tushikur Rahman, moderated by Philippe Van Canteran
7 November, 4.20 to 5.30pm Baggikhana Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: Professionalising Nepali photography Bikash Karki & Raj Bhai Suwal, moderated by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati
7 November, 4.20 to 5.30pm
Gaushala Hall, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Presentation: Retelling histories curricular project by Niranjan Kunwar and Sharareh Bajracharya
8 November, 3 to 3.40pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Artist Talk: Finding your voice by Sailendra Kharel
8 November, 3.40 to 4.20pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
Discussion: The Earthquake and the Image Athena Zelandonii, Narendra Shrestha & Sam Reinders, moderated by Austin Lord
8 November, 4.30 to 5.30pm
Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
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