Dates: May-June-July
Fridays (3-6pm) and Saturdays (11-2pm)
Workshops will preferably be conducted on these days, but it can be flexible and date changes can be decided by the participants and teacher.
Cost: Rs. 5,000
Where: Sattya Media Arts Collective
Scholarship: Limited Scholarships available
Language: English, Hindi, Nepali are spoken by the instructor. Women who can speak at least one of those can apply. Literacy not required.
Target Participants: Women who are interested in learning about using photography for telling stories of social issues. No previous experience required. Participants can be activists, shopkeepers, social workers, farmers, mothers, etc.
Goal: This workshop aims at teaching photography to women as a medium to tell compelling stories.
Description: Photography is a very powerful tool to convey emotions, ideas, narratives, messages, and tell stories.
Nepal has many women who have dynamic stories to tell, but do not have a channel to communicate them. This workshop will not only teach them how to capture strong images, but also make them confident and empowered.
This workshop will teach participants the basic technicalities of operating a camera, aesthetics of photography, and more. Through regular fieldtrips and critique sessions, the students will learn how to tell their story through images.
The workshop aim is to have each participant produce a photo story to be exhibited at the end of the course.
The workshop will cover:
- The basic technicalities of operating the camera
- Exposure
- Composition
- Lighting
- Lenses
- The aesthetics of photography
- How to document a story
- How to be comfortable while shooting people
- How to self-critique images
About the Instructor: Mithila Jariwala
Mithila started her career as a travel and documentary photographer; she is now bending towards social documentary photography and photojournalism.
Having lived in four countries and travelled to 11, she has not only experienced different cultures and surreal beauty of various countries, but also witnessed poverty, social injustice, lack of infrastructure and political imbalance. These experiences are leading her to move towards social documentary photography, where she is committed to highlight these issues in a positive visual.
Her photography has been exhibited in India, Singapore and London and her works have been published in several magazines around South East Asia, India and Nepal. Her work has also been published in the Sony World Photography Awards Winner’s book, 2012.
Currently she is working as a Freelance Photographer in Nepal, working on several projects, of which she is most looking forward to conducting her workshop with Sattya.
“We chose this unique concept of teaching Social Documentary Photography to Women in Nepal, who can use it as a medium to tell compelling stories. I can’t wait to start this workshop and be surprised by the stories that will transpire through it.”
