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ক্যামেরার পাঠশালা,
ক্যামেরায় ছবি তুলতে হলে জানতে হবে আলোকচিত্রের নানা কৌশল। আর এই কৌশল শেখানোর একটি প্রতিষ্ঠানের নাম পাঠশালা। পুরো নাম ‘দ্য সাউথ এশিয়ান ইনস্টিটিউট অব ফটোগ্রাফি।’ ১৯৯৮ সালে পান্থপথ আর কলাবাগান সংযোগ সড়কের কাছাকাছি ১৬ শুক্রাবাদ বাড়িটির উঠোনে আমগাছের নিচে প্রখ্যাত আলোকচিত্রী শহিদুল আলমের কাছে কয়েকজন আলোকচিত্রপ্রেমী ছবি তোলা শেখার আগ্রহ প্রকাশ করেন। এরপর তাঁদের নিয়েই শুরু হয় পাঠশালার প্রথম পর্ব। সময়ও ঢের গড়িয়েছে। শুক্রাবাদের সেই আমতলা ছাড়িয়ে এখন তাঁরা শেখে একতলা বাড়িটি জুড়ে থাকা শ্রেণীকক্ষ, লাইব্রেরি ও ডার্করুমে। পরিসর বেড়েছে, বেড়েছে শিক্ষার্থী। পাঠশালা হতে পারে আলোকচিত্র শিক্ষার অন্যতম সহায়ক। কিন্তু কীভাবে আপনি যোগাযোগ করবেন তাঁদের সঙ্গে আর কীভাবে জানবেন আলোকচিত্রের ওপর কী কী কোর্স আছে এখানে? জেনে নেওয়া যাক এবার সেই সম্পর্কে—পাঠশালা একজন আলোকচিত্রীকে বিভিন্ন কোর্সে অংশ নেওয়ার সুযোগ করে দিচ্ছে। যদি কেউ কেবল শখের বশে শিখতে চান তবে করে নিতে পারেন এখানের চার সপ্তাহের বেসিক ফটোগ্রাফি কোর্সটি।
যে কেউ এই কোর্সে তিন হাজার টাকার বিনিময়ে অংশ নিতে পারবেন। আরও আছে আট সপ্তাহের ফাউন্ডেশন কোর্স, যার খরচ পড়বে সাড়ে পাঁচ হাজার টাকা। এ তো গেল সংক্ষিপ্ত কোর্সের কথা। আলোকচিত্রী হওয়াটা যাঁদের নেশা তাঁরা এটাকে পেশায় পরিণত করে নিতে পারেন এক বছরের প্রোগ্রাম ইন ফটোগ্রাফি। তবে এখানে রয়েছে শিক্ষাগত যোগ্যতার বাধ্যবাধকতা। এসএসসি ও এইচএসসিতে কিংবা এ লেভেলে ২.৫ কিংবা দ্বিতীয় শ্রেণী অর্জন করা শিক্ষার্থীরা অংশ নিতে পারবেন। দুই সেমিস্টারের এই কোর্সটির ফি পড়বে ৪৫ হাজার টাকা। আরও কিছু শর্ত আছে। অবশ্যই শিক্ষার্থীকে বেসিক ফটোগ্রাফি কোর্স করা থাকতে হবে। আর প্রকাশনা কিংবা অভিজ্ঞতা থাকলে অবশ্যই তা বাড়তি যোগ্যতা হিসেবে বিবেচিত হবে। পাঠশালায় দুই ও তিন বছরের অ্যাডভান্সড ও স্নাতক ফটোগ্রাফি কোর্সও করে নিতে পারেন যে কেউ। এ ছাড়া এখানে নতুনভাবে যুক্ত হয়েছে ছয় সপ্তাহের ভিডিওগ্রাফির বেসিক কোর্স। এর ফি পড়বে তিন হাজার টাকা।আলোকচিত্রের বেসিক কোর্স করার সময় যদি কোনো যন্ত্রপাতির প্রয়োজন হয় তার সবই সরবরাহ করবে পাঠশালা। তবে বাকিগুলোতে নিজেই নিজের যন্ত্রপাতির ব্যয় বহন করতে হবে। সবার জন্যই পাঠশালার লাইব্রেরি ব্যবহারের সুযোগ রয়েছে। আলোকচিত্রের ওপর দেশ-বিদেশের বিখ্যাত বই পাওয়া যাবে এখানে। মৌলিক কোর্স ছাড়া অন্যান্য কোর্সের শিক্ষার্থীরা ডার্করুম, ল্যাবরুম ব্যবহারের সুযোগ পাবেন। এর জন্য বাড়তি কোনো ফি দিতে হবে না। কেউ যদি এখানকার ফি একটু বেশি বলে মনে করেন তবে জেনে রাখা ভালো, পাঠশালায় প্রশিক্ষণ করাতে অনেক সময় বিদেশের প্রখ্যাত আলোকচিত্রশিল্পীরা আসেন। তাঁদের খরচও কিন্তু কম নয়, সে তুলনায় নেহাত অল্প বলেই মনে করে কর্তৃপক্ষ। ছবি তোলা শিখতে কেন শিক্ষার্থীরা এখানে আসবেন? এ প্রশ্নের জবাবে পাঠশালার প্রশাসনিক কর্মকর্তা যোসেফ রোজারিও বলেন, ‘এখানে যাঁরা শেখান, তাঁদের সবাই আলোকচিত্র পেশার সঙ্গে সম্পর্কযুক্ত। শিক্ষকেরা শিক্ষার্থীদের প্রতি আলাদা যত্ন নেন। আর এখানে একান্তভাবেই চাওয়া হয় যেন শিক্ষার্থীরা শিক্ষকদের কাছ থেকে কিছু শিখতে পারেন।’পাঠশালা সম্প্রতি ভিন্ন উদ্যোগ নিয়েছে তার শিক্ষার্থীদের জন্য। অসলো ইউনিভার্সিটি কলেজের সঙ্গে ২০০৩ সাল থেকে শুরু হওয়া চুক্তি অনুযায়ী অসলোর শিক্ষার্থীরা বাংলাদেশে আর বাংলাদেশের আলোকচিত্রীরা অসলোতে যাবে। এ ছাড়া এডিথকোয়েন ইউনিভার্সিটি পার্থ অস্ট্রেলিয়ার সঙ্গেও ২০০৮ সাল থেকে শুরু হয়েছে ছাত্রদের অদলবদলের প্রথা। এক দেশের আলোকচিত্রী অন্য দেশে গিয়ে সেই বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় কিংবা প্রতিষ্ঠানের নেতৃত্বে আলোকচিত্রের নানা বিষয়ে আলোচনা করেন। এ ছাড়া পাঠশালা, দ্য সাউথ এশিয়ান ইনস্টিটিউট অব ফটোগ্রাফির যেকোনো শিক্ষার্থী যদি আলোকচিত্র বিষয়ে উচ্চশিক্ষা গ্রহণ করতে চান, তবে এই দুই বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ছাড়াও ডেনিশ স্কুল অব জার্নালিজম, ডেনমার্ক ও সান্ডারল্যান্ড ও বোল্টন ইউনিভার্সিটিতে পড়াশোনা করতে পারবেন।পাঠশালায় যাঁরা প্রশিক্ষণ দিচ্ছেন তাঁরাও দেশের প্রথিতযশা আলোকচিত্রশিল্পী। ফলে এখান থেকে কিছু না শিখে অন্তত যেতে হবে না। শুধু ঢাকায় নয়, সিলেটে ও চট্টগ্রামেও ছড়িয়েছে পাঠশালার শাখা। চট্টগ্রামে যাঁরা ছবি তোলার কলাকৌশল শিখতে চান তাঁরা যোগাযোগ করতে পারেন ওয়াইএমসিএ বিল্ডিং, বাড়ি নম্বর ৯৫০/ই, সিডিএ এভিনিউ, পূর্ব নাসিরাবাদ, চট্টগ্রাম। প্রয়োজনে ০১৭১৫৪৮৭৫৭৫। এ ছাড়া সিলেটের আগ্রহীরা যোগাযোগ করতে পারেন স্টুডিও মডেল, রাজা বিপণি, জিন্দাবাজার, সিলেট। প্রয়োজনে-০১৭১১৩৭৬৭৮৪।আগামী চার বছরের মধ্যে পরিবর্তন হতে পারে পাঠশালার নাম আর ভবন। নতুন নাম হবে ‘দ্য সাউথ এশিয়ান মিডিয়া একাডেমি অ্যান্ড ইনস্টিটিউট অব ফটোগ্রাফি।’ এই প্রতিষ্ঠান দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার সেরা আলোকচিত্র শিক্ষাপ্রতিষ্ঠানের স্বপ্ন নিয়ে এগিয়ে যাচ্ছে। কিছুটা স্বপ্ন পূরণও হয়েছে বটে, প্রতি দুই বছর অন্তর আয়োজিত ছবিমেলার মধ্য দিয়ে। যে মেলায় হাট বসে বিশ্বের নানা দেশের আলোকচিত্রীর। যে কেউ আলোকচিত্রী হওয়ার স্বপ্ন নিয়ে এগিয়ে যেতে পার এই পথে। লক্ষ পূরণে পাঠশালা সহযোগিতা করবে তরুণদের।

Magnum Scholarship in the UK

Dear All,
There is one Scholarship for pathshala student from Magnum,UK. Please send your applications with the following materials:

1. Statement of purpose (250 words max).
2. Description of a Human Right Project you would like to pursue (250 words max).
3. Portfolio of 20 Photographs (1000 px longest side, jpeg save as 8, make a zip file with all the photos).
4. Description of preferred internship setting (250 words max).
( e.g. a magazine, non-profit or photo agency).
5. CV including educational background.

Date of submission: 18 February, 2010
Send a CD with all the materials to Pathshala office by 7:pm.

Discussion about ‘Copy-right Jam Session’.

February 15, 2010

To
All Students of Pathashala
Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography
Panthapath
Dhaka

Subject: Discussion about ‘Copy-right Jam Session’.

Dear All,

We are pleased to inform you that Rupert Grey, a consultant in the Litigation Group, will be coming again to Bangladesh on the 16th of February. He advises photographers and syndication agencies on all aspects of copyright law, and regularly lectures and gives seminars in the UK and overseas on aspect of media law.

We have arranged a discussion about ‘Copy-right Jam Session (question and answer)’ for you on Thursday, the 18th of February 2010 at 5.00pm at Pathshala which will be led by Rupert Grey.

We request you all to do some home about copy-right or related issues: - eg about contracts, what rights you should release, some concrete examples of eg infringements: it would be helpful to have some stories of things that went wrong.

We ask all of you to participate in this session in order to know the developments in the UK and from an international point of view.

Thanks for your participation.

Yours sincerely,


Joseph Rozario
Administrative Manager

The Magnum Scholarship in USA

The Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce that three scholarships are available for the 2010 New York University/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights Program.

The funding covers the 6-week program at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, housing, travel, and expenses. Two scholarships also include a 4-week internship at a magazine, non-profit or photo agency in New York, and the third includes a similar internship in London.

As described below, one scholarship is for applicants from the Indian sub-continent. The other two scholarships are open to applicants from any of the following regions: Latin America, the Caucasus region, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, East Asia, Africa or the Middle East.

Support for these scholarships has generously been provided by the Magnum Charitable Trust (UK), the Open Society Institute, and the Magnum Foundation.
Non-scholarship students can enroll in the Photography and Human Rights program through the normal NYU registration procedure. For more details visit: http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/photomagnum.html.

About the Program

Tisch School of the Arts, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting documentary photography, recently created the certificate program in Photography and Human Rights. The new initiative is designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects linked with issues of human rights. The program begins in May 2010.
“We are delighted to be able to partner with the Magnum Foundation to offer this important new program,” said Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts. “The roleof photography in the global struggle for basic human rights has never been more important than it is today. This program’s emphasis will be on the relevance of human rights law to documentary work, and how the photographer can develop projects that aid in the attainment of those basic rights.”
The program is aimed at intermediate and advanced students, including experienced professionals, who seek to hone their documentary and media skills in the context of human rights. Students will be taught to utilize a variety of media approaches while emphasizing new digital possibilities to create maximum social impact.
Faculty for the program will include: Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, adjunct professor and human rights specialist Peter Lucas, photography and technical specialist Cate Fallon, and program director and acting chair of Photography & Imaging, Fred Ritchin, among others.
More information about the program, including updates, can be found on the NYU website at http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/photomagnum.html.

About the Scholarship Application Process
Application materials should be submitted through the submission portal at http://magnumfoundation.org/NYU.html. Students must indicate the regional scholarship for which they are applying.
Applicants should be intermediate to advanced students, including professional photographers who seek to deepen their engagement with documenting human rights issues.
Applicants must be fluent in English. Application materials should include:
-Statement of Purpose (750 words max)
-Description of a Human Rights project you would like to pursue (250 words max)
-Portfolio of 20 photographs by the student
-Description of a preferred internship setting (250 words max)
(e.g., a magazine, non-profit or photo agency)
-CV/resume (including educational background)
The application deadline is March 3rd, 2010.
Applications will be judged by program faculty in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation and the Magnum Charitable Trust.
Winners will be named on March 15th.
For more information, please contact: zoe@magnumfoundation.org. For more information about the Magnum Foundation, please visit:
http://www.magnumfoundation.org/.
February 11, 2010

SCHOLARSHIP FOR FEMALE STUDENTS

SCHOLARSHIP FOR FEMALE STUDENTS
Pathshala, the complete school of photography in Bangladesh is inviting applications ONLY from the female students for ‘One Year Programme in Photography’ starting from
February 20, 2010.
Deadline for submission of applications: February 17, 2010
Requirements:
HSC or A level with GPA: 2.5 or 2nd Division.
Fluent in spoken and written English.
Must have completed basic photography course.

Interested deserving female students are requested to send their CV, copies of academic certificates, two passport size photographs, a portfolio (with minimum 10 images,
size: 8” x 10”), publication, if any to:
Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography, 16, Sukrabad, Panthapath (west), Dhaka-1207 within the deadline.
Tel: 9129847, 9136895.

The final presentation by OUC, Nepal, Chittagong and Pathshala Students.

ToAll Tutors, Existing and Ex-students of Pathshala
Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography
Panthapath
Dhaka -1207 February 8, 2010

Subject: The final presentation by OUC, Nepal, Chittagong and Pathshala Students.

Dear All,
We are pleased to inform you that the collaborative programme between Oslo University College (OUC), Norway, Photo.Circle, Nepal, Photo Bank, Chittagong and Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography, Dhaka has started from January 11, 2010. Under this programme, a group of students from OUC is collaborating with the fellow students from Photo.Circle, Nepal, Photo Bank, Chittagong and Pathshala, Dhaka for the first time. Students work on their personal projects as part of their curriculum and produce comprehensive photo-stories at the end. This programme is being sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway.

Under this programme, a group of twelve students from OUC, seventeen students from Pathshala, eight from Nepal and eight from Chittagong through Photo Bank in Chittagong are collaborating in this year. Students worked in two groups in two different venues-one in Nepal and the other one in Chittagong. Both the groups had workshops in Nepal and Chittagong from January 11-15, 2010 separately. The workshop in Nepal was conducted by Philip Blenkinsop and in Chittagong by Stuart Freedman. Students then worked on their personal projects from January 16 to February 5, 2010. The group in Nepal had a local presentation in Nepal on the 6th February and the Chittagong group on the 7th February. All participating students will come to Dhaka for their final presentation. The presentation schedule is given below:
Presentation:
February 11, 2010 from 3.00pm –8.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)
February 12, 2010 from 3.00pm –8.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)
All tutors and students from OUC, Nepal, Chittagong and Pathshala and the existing and ex-students of Pathshala are invited to attend this presentation for the encouragement of the participating students and making it a successful one.

Thanks for attending the presentation.

Yours sincerely,

Joseph Rozario
Administrative Manager

Scholarship oppurtunity for Pathshala students in NYU

Dear All,
Magnum Foundation in UK is offering ONE scholarship to a Pathshala student for the NYU-MF Human Rights and Photography program this summer. We will update you with instructions for submissions shortly.

Courses in Photography & Human Rights

The Department of Photography & Imaging atʼsNewTischYorkSchoolUniversityofthe Arts

and the Magnum Foundation present a suite of four courses in Photography and Human Rights designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects in pursuit of human rights.


WEEKS 1-3 MAY 17 – JUNE 4:

THE PICTURE ESSAY FOR PAPER AND PIXEL – Fred Ritchin DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE –Cate Fallon

WEEKS 4-6 JUNE 7 – JUNE 25:

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY – Peter Lucas THE PHOTO ESSAY –Susan Meiselas

This 6-week program is made up of 4 intensive evening courses, intended for intermediate and advanced students, including experienced professionals, who seek to hone their documentary and media skills in the context of human rights. The assumption is that all students will be relatively fluent with the use of a camera to produce photographs but will benefit from work on developing a visual essay for both conventional and digital media, using video, sound and interactive techniques to enhance the power of the imagery. A major emphasis of the program will be on the relevance of human rights law to the documentary work, and strategizing projects that aid in the attainment of such basic rights. Guest lecturers for the program will include many documentary photographers, editors, and critics.

Students are encouraged to take all four courses, but the courses can be taken in any combination that works for the student. Courses can be taken for credit or non-credit. Registration begins February 8th. For registration and housing information, please consult nyu.edu/summer.

At the end of the summer session, the Department of Photography & Imaging and the Magnum Foundation (www .magnumfoundation.org) will host two panels entitled “Bearing Witness: Human Rights and the Law” and “Creating an Alternative Human Rights Documentary Community.”

For more information, please visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212-998-1930.


MAY 17 – JUNE 4

THE PICTURE ESSAY FOR PAPER AND PIXEL (2 credit lecture)

This course will focus on the long-term photographic essay. It will look at both linear and non-linear forms of the essay, with and without the use of text, sound, video and other media. Intent, ethics, grammar and presentation issues will be considered. There will be many references to a variety of historical models from magazines, newspapers, books, exhibitions and digital environments, including the Web.

Fred Ritchin is professorʼTischSchoolofPhotographyoftheArts&. HeImagingisalsoat New York University

the director of PixelPress (www.pixelpress.org), creating web sites, books and exhibitions investigating new documentary strategies and promoting human rights.

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE (2 credit studio)

The class will explore tools that are useful for a documentary photographer, relating to the digital camera, as well as to image capture, preservation, presentation and transmission. Lighting, audio interviewing, and the production of short videos will also be covered at a basic level. Students work on several small assignments to experiment with software and hardware, and will have the opportunity to complete a small project of their own. This course is intended to give students a fundamental understanding of the efficiencies and possibilities of the digital realm.

Catherine Fallon is the former Digital master printer for Gilles Peress. She has had residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada; the MacDowell Colony; and the Ucross Foundation. Her photographic work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, New York; Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon; City Gallery, New York; and Soho 20, New York.

JUNE 7 – JUNE 25

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY (2 credit lecture)

This class will focus on photography, representation, and human rights. Specifically, we will examine the crucial role that photography plays in the global human rights movement. Many photographers who once considered themselves to be working within a documentary tradition now conceive of themselves as also working within a human rights framework. In order to understand this change, we need to view the many historical and contemporary movements related to documentary photography. We will also explore critical issues surrounding the ethics and politics of photographic representation and the different mediums (such as traditional print media versus new media) used to express human rights issues. We will also carefully place photography and visual representation within the wider field of human rights. And finally, we will study the impact photography has had on social change and the many possibilities photographs may have in the future struggle for universal human rights.

Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University as a lecturer of peace education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, at The New School, Bogazici University, and Istanbul University. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, and human rights education and documentary practice.

THE PHOTO ESSAY (2 credit studio)

This is an advanced course that concentrates on creating photo essays in the context of human rights. Students will photograph, edit, sequence and present a photographic essay that they produce during the course, using allied media when useful; they will also read essential human rights literature and discuss in class its importance in pursuing the photo essay. Issues in effective fieldwork will be discussed, both strategic and ethical. The class will also consider the potential usefulness of such documentary projects and how to target work for greater social impact.

Susan Meiselas (www.susanmeiselas.com) received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. She is well -known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador.

Full Disclosure - A Documentary by Brian Palmer, USA

FULL DISCLOSUREBrian Palmer, Director • 917.561.1964 • bxpnyc@earthlink.net

http://www.policyinnovations.org/calendar/data/000022
Journalist Brian Palmer followed young U.S. Marines on dozens of missions during three embeds in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Back in the States, he continued to document the war and its human cost. Full Disclosure captures the consistent, sometimes benign, but often tragic miscommunication between U.S. troops and vulnerable Iraqi citizens. Amid the inexorable and destructive momentum of the occupation, the documentary explores the consequences of our inability to speak with and understand those whose country we occupy. It exposes the gap between what we think we’re doing in Iraq and what we’re actually doing.
Iraq was the war five years ago when Palmer started Full Disclosure. Afghanistan was “the forgotten war.” The opposite may be true in 2010, but even as Americans turn toward “AfPak” and Yemen, the discord and damage in Iraq remain.

Brian Palmer is an independent journalist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009, he completed Full Disclosure, for which he received grants from the Ford Foundation and Applied Research Center. Palmer has written for Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Pixel Press.org, ColorLines, Foam (Amsterdam), Independent World Report (Stockholm) among others. He is a Fellow at New York University Law School’s Center on Law and Security and a faculty member in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From 2000 to 2002 he was an on-air correspondent at CNN. Prior to that, he was a staff writer at Fortune and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report. Palmer began his career in journalism in 1988 at The Village Voice newspaper.

The Final Presentation by ECU and Pathshala students

January 30, 2010

To
All Tutors, Existing and Ex-students of Pathshala

Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography

Panthapath
Dhaka
Subject: The Final Presentation by ECU and Pathshala students.
Dear All,
We are very pleased to inform you that the final presentation and the exhibition of the works of students from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia and Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be held on the 1st and 2nd of February 2010. The final presentation and the exhibition are the outcome of the workshop which was conducted by Tina Ahrens, Photo Editor, GEO magazine, New York, during the period from January 9-13, 2010.
Presentation:
February 1, 2010 from 3.00pm – 7.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)
February 2, 2010 from 3.00pm – 8.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)


Exhibition:
The inauguration of the exhibition will be on January 5, 2010 at 4.30pm at Drik Gallery. The exhibition will remain open from January 5 -12, 2010 from 03.00pm to 8.00pm everyday.
All participating students are requested to be present at Drik Gallery at 2.30pm without fail.
All tutors, existing and ex-students are invited to attend this presentation and see the exhibition during the period as mentioned above for the encouragement of the participating students and also for making it a successful one.
Thanks for your participation.


Yours sincerely,


Joseph Rozarrio
Administrative manager

South Asian Institute of Photography

The educational wing of Drik

23^rd December 2009

To

All Tutors and Students of Pathshala

Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography

Panthapath, Dhaka

Subject: Celebration of 100^th Batch in Basic photography Course

Dear All,

We announce with a great pleasure that Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography is going to celebrate its one hundred batches in Basic Photography Course on Thursday, the 7^th of January 2010 at Pathshala. We have taken lot initiatives in celebrating this great occasion in a befitting manner.

Students those who had completed the basic photography course, foundation course, basic videography course, diploma, ad. diploma and graduation during last eleven years from Pathshala are cordially invited to participate in this programme.

The interested students are requested to complete their registration during the period from January 2-4, 2010 in between 10.00am – 6.00pm at Pathshala office. The registration fee is taka one hundred only (Tk.100.00) for each student. Please complete your registration within the given deadline.

We hope that we will get your participation and cooperation to make this programme a very successful one.

Thanking you,

Joseph Roario

Administrative Manager

Tentative Programme Schedule:

03-59-04.00 : Programme starts

04.00-04.10 : Welcome and Exchange of Greetings

04.10-04.50 : Discussion “One Decade of Pathshala”by Shahidul Alam, Principal.

: Discussion on the selected topic by Nurul Kabir.

04.55-05.30 : Sriticharon by four students

05.30-06.00 : Presentation

06.30-08.00 : Musical programme

08.30- 09.30 : Dinner

16 Sukrabad, Panthapath Mirpur Road, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh, Tel:9129847,9136895,E-mail:pathshala@drik.net URL:www.pathshala.net