Events & News
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.
