Events & News
News
A painting by artist Subrata Chowdhury is adapted as logo of the Beyond Sight Foundation. Raised version of the logo is used on printed material of the foundation for the visually impaired to touch and feel it.
Launch of “Blind With Camera School of Photography” a web based virtual school of photography for the visually impaired. The school provides step-by-step tutorials to get started with photography and also offer guidence to sighted photographers (train the trainer) to start photograhic workshops with local visually impaired people. Click here to visit the school.
Upcoming Events
Nov 26th - Presenation on making of Blind With Camera project at the Nehru Centre, London. The centre is the cultural wing of the High Commission of India.
Nov 18th to Dec 3rd - Exhibition at the DaDa International Disability Art Festival, Liverpool UK. Venue of the exhibition is the Liverpool Cathedral, the largest cathedral in Britain and fifth largest in the world.
Oct 16th - Exhibition and sensitization workshop (simulation of blindness) at HVB School, Mumbai. The show will include photographs resulting from the workshops where visually impaired photographers work together with “blindfolded” sighted students from the school.
Sept 26th to Oct 3rd - Exhibition at the Indian Express building, Nariman Point Mumbai as part of “Joy of Giving Week” by GiveIndia.
Sept 9th & 10th - Exhibition cum sensitization workshop (simulation of blindness) at the Xavier’s College Mumbai in collaboration with XRCVC.
Aug 20th to 22nd - Exhibition at the Kala Academy Panjim Goa. The show includes photographs taken by visually impaired from Goa during the workshop conducted by Blind With Camera in Goa between May and July 2010.
Past Events
10th & 11th July 2010 - Photographic workshop was conducted at Goa in asscocation with NAB Goa and with support from Heritage Jazz, Goa. Twenty six visually impaired from Goa participated in the workshop, age ranging from 12 to 40 years and with visual impairment - born blind, late blind and low vision. Workshop started with indoor session, participants learn how to handle a camera, and they took pictures of each other. The young ones were asked to take picture of design on their dress. The older people were asked to take picture of unused typewriter. Next day was a outdoor session, younger group was taken to old Goa and beach in Panjim. All enjoy the new experience of taken pictures – union of fun & creation. Click here to view the work
27th - 30th May 2010 - Workshop on pinhole camera was conducted at the Centre for Alternative Photography in Goa and supported by Heritage Jazz, Goa. It was attended by Kanchan Pamnani from Mumbai and Pranav Lal from New Delhi. They used pinhole camera made of matchbox, beer can and pvc pipes, pictures were taken directly on photographic paper and films, they also worked in the darkroom. Use of 180 year old photographic practices resulted in images that most of us rarely get to see. Click here to view the worK.
February 20, 2010: Work from Blind With Camera was display at HUB Bandra, Mumbai. Adding flavour to the event Mahesh Umrannia, a visually impaired sitar player and photographer perfomed evening Ragas from Indian classical music. The show ended by screening of films on blindness.
February 6 - 14, 2010: Work from Blind With Camera was exhibited at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Mumbai and viewed by over 3000 people and several visually impaired people. Raised touchable images fascinated most viewers. Renowned Indian photographer Pablo Batholomew and Actress cum Social Activist Shabana Azimi visit the exhibition.
January 12-13, 2010: Partho Bhowmick presented the making of Blind With Camera project at the Enterpreneurship Summit at the the Indian Insititute of Management, Ahmedabad. Photographs by the visually impaired were also on display at the venue and a workshop was conducted to give sighted auidence an insight into the creative process of visually impaired photographers.
January 11, 2010: Screening of unique Iranian film SEVEN BLIND FEMALE FILM MAKERS at the Alliance Franciaise, Mumbai on The screen of the film was part of THE VIEW FROM HERE, an exhibition of photographs by the visually impaired from Mumbai and Paris at the Alliance Franciaise, Mumbai from January 11-29, 2010. The show is curated by Partho Bhowmick and screening of the film was made possible with the support of Mohammed Atebbai from Iran.
Seven Blind Female Filmmakers is an extraordinary omnibus film presents seven shorts made by a group of blind women who each participated in a yearlong filmmaking workshop initiated by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Shirvani. They learnt how to portray their surroundings with small digital cameras and without getting help from the sighted people. Each short opens an intensely intimate window on the everyday experience of the blind, while the collection as a whole raises fascinating questions about the nature of cinema itself.
