There was a photo presentation following the 3 day workshop called 'Photographing the everyday' by the Belgian-French photographer Frederic Lecloux (www.fredericlecloux.com) organised by photo.circle (www.photocircle.com.np) here in Kathmandu. 10 young Nepalese photographers attempted to push their boundaries, to explore beyond the regular working with Frederic.
Frederic Lecloux emphasizes self expression in photo stories. His photos ooze emotion, the melancholy is evident whether it is his photos of Nepal or Belgium. The beauty of the landscapes goes far beyond the aesthetic. They are images transmitting feelings, opinions and personality.
This self expression seems to have been the challenge for the young Nepalese photographers, accustomed to doing photojournalism style stories. Watching their presentations my mind raced. Each photo brought feelings, thoughts, words to my mind. Bitterness, anger, sadness, disgust, nostalgia, joy and peace!
Photography leaves words to imagination as writing leaves images. A photograph is dynamic as is a piece of writing. Each person looking at it reinterprets it according to his life experiences, attaches to it a meaning of his own much as the photographer did when he captured the image through his lens.
Like a photograph could capture a fact of life thus making it live forever (Raghu Rai, Correspondent-Magnum) it could capture a feeling, an emotion and lock it inside its colours, forms and shadows forever. The power of imagery is this power to freeze a moment or make a memory an object. An object that has the capacity to rekindle the same feelings of the moment and recreate new feelings even after many years.
Good writing to me serves the same purpose. It is capturing life's moments- facts, opinions, emotions in a few lines, engraving them so they continue to exist long after the moment has passed.
Frederic Lecloux emphasizes self expression in photo stories. His photos ooze emotion, the melancholy is evident whether it is his photos of Nepal or Belgium. The beauty of the landscapes goes far beyond the aesthetic. They are images transmitting feelings, opinions and personality.
This self expression seems to have been the challenge for the young Nepalese photographers, accustomed to doing photojournalism style stories. Watching their presentations my mind raced. Each photo brought feelings, thoughts, words to my mind. Bitterness, anger, sadness, disgust, nostalgia, joy and peace!
Photography leaves words to imagination as writing leaves images. A photograph is dynamic as is a piece of writing. Each person looking at it reinterprets it according to his life experiences, attaches to it a meaning of his own much as the photographer did when he captured the image through his lens.
Like a photograph could capture a fact of life thus making it live forever (Raghu Rai, Correspondent-Magnum) it could capture a feeling, an emotion and lock it inside its colours, forms and shadows forever. The power of imagery is this power to freeze a moment or make a memory an object. An object that has the capacity to rekindle the same feelings of the moment and recreate new feelings even after many years.
Good writing to me serves the same purpose. It is capturing life's moments- facts, opinions, emotions in a few lines, engraving them so they continue to exist long after the moment has passed.
