World Photo Day : Bang bang Club movie screening at DPC 19th August

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DPC celebrates World Photo Day with full of zeal and enthuisam keeping the spirit alive we are screen this beautiful movie at DPC.

You are invited.

The Bang Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club was a group of photographers and photojournalists active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage. This period saw much black on black factional violence, particularly fighting between ANC and IFP supporters, after the lifting of the bans on both political parties.
Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva were the four associated with the name, although a number of photographers and photojournalists worked alongside them (such as James Nachtwey and Gary Bernard). A movie about the group, directed by Steven Silver and starring Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Phillippe and Malin Åkerman, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.

The name “The Bang Bang Club” was born out of an article published in the South African magazine Living. Originally named The Bang Bang Paparazzi, it was changed to “Club” because the members felt the word paparazzi misrepresented their work. The name comes from the culture itself; township residents spoke to the photographers about the “bang-bang” in reference to violence occurring within their communities, but more literally, “bang-bang” refers to the sound of gunfire and is a colloquialism used by conflict photographers.
On 18 April 1994, during a firefight between the National Peacekeeping Force and African National Congress supporters in the Thokoza township, friendly fire killed Oosterbroek and seriously injured Marinovich. An inquest into Oosterbroek’s death began in 1995. The magistrate ruled that no party should be blamed for the death. In 1999, peacekeeper Brian Mkhize told Marinovich and Silva that he believed that the bullet that killed Oosterbroek had come from the National Peacekeeping Force.
In July 1994, Carter committed suicide.
On 23 October 2010, Silva stepped on a landmine while on patrol with US soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan and lost both legs below the knee.

A tour of B & W Photography : Past Present and Future

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a tour of B&Wphotography
It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that this month we are inviting ace photographer Santanu Chakraborty at DPC in the ongoing series of calling senior photographers at DPC for a tea talk session exclusively for our members on Black n White Photography.

A Tour of Black and White Photography: Past, Present and Future
This talk will discuss the origins of photography taking us through the various processes that ushered in photography.
Instead of fading away into history many of these methods, each with their unique look, have returned under the moniker of “Alternative” Photography. Photography moved on from these methods into the more convenient silver gelatin based technique that we today know as Film. Santanu will be discussing various techniques, their processes and subtleties along with the works of master practitioners from both the past and the present. All along contrasting the old methods of shooting and printmaking with the modern digital methods of today to give you a comprehensive overview that will help you choose the processes that most enhance your artistic vision.

Date: 7th August, Sunday
Timings: 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Venue: Delhi Photography Club Lounge,
Shahpur Jat Village
About Santanu Chakraborty:
Santanu, is a trained painter since childhood until it was time to go to college due to peer pressure to go and study engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.
However, he continued the Black and White work in his college darkroom.
After completing engineering, he studied Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Columbia University.
He also took a course in printing at the ICP and a black and white workshop with master printer Jim Megargee. Jim has printed for a who’s who of diverse masters from Annie Leibovitz to James Nachtwey and his brief influence brought in a level of observation and discipline which has been a prolonged influence in his subsequent reading of black and white technique.
In 2009, Santanu decided to return and pursue long term photographic projects in India. His works from Kolkata has been shown in solo shows at the Jehangir Art Gallery and the National Center for Performing Arts, both in Mumbai. He continue to work on his own projects in Calcutta and the Himalayas as well as teach workshops on black and white work around the country.Between personal work and workshops, he also writes a science column for the Bangalore.

Follow-up Session @ DPC Photo Choupal

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follow up!Photo Cha

Starting a series of new activities to generate more good pictures and informed learning .

Here we go presenting latest Follow up session @ photo Choral

This activity is free for DPC members and DPC workshop participants .

The Idea behind organizing the event is to help you achieving desired results in photography.

any times we are so busy clicking pictures in one style  that we forget the basics and couple of other tricks and you fail when it is required most .

This follow-up session will strengthen your basics and help you going to the next level.  Move to the next level.

During the two hour session you can talk to mentors , get your work critiqued , clear your doubts and move on.