Image Credit - Abhishek Hajela
INDIAN PHOTO FESTIVAL 2015
The Indian Photography Festival (IPF) - Hyderabad, a Not-For-Profit initiative of Light Craft Foundation along with Telangana Tourism is India?s newest international photography festival, showcasing a wide range of photography across all genres from portraits and landscape through photojournalism to fine-art by emerging and legendary photographers from India and around the globe. The IPF creates a platform for the professional and aspiring photographers, the photography lovers and the public where the IPF strives to promote the art of photography at the same time addressing the social issues through the medium of photography.
IPF is a citywide, highly participatory event that explodes in arts and cultural venues, on the streets and in communities from Oct 1 - 10, 2015. The festival will have Featured Exhibitions, Panel Discussions, Artists Talks, Portfolio Reviews, Photography Workshops, Open Studios & Book Launches. All in all, the event is the latest and most exciting addition to a line-up of increasingly influential fests around the world and is set to establish itself as the must-see contemporary art event on the Indian cultural calendar.
Team
Aquin Mathews | Festival Director
Chandrasekhar Singh | Programming Head
Swarat Ghosh | Program Manager
Festival Committee
Vinay Parab | Ismail Shariff | Namrata Rupani | Nishanth Kumar Biderkote | Raj Kumar | Nivedita. N
SPEAKERS
John Issac
Former Photography Head United Nations
Balan Madhavan
Wildlife Photographer & ILCP Fellow
Benjamin Lowy
Photojournalist Reportage By Getty
Russell Hart
Former Photo - Editor American Photo
Barbara Davidson
Pulitzer Winning - LA Times Staff Photographer
Aditya Arya
Photographer & Archivist IPAF
D. Ravinder Reddy
Photojournalist
Michael Bonfigli
Photo Journalist Metro Collective
Amit Mehra
Documentary Photographer
Samar S Jodha
Photographer - Artist
K. Vishwender Reddy
Photographer - Artist
Ravi Reddy
Photographer
Chinky Shukla
Photojournalist
Michael Monteiro
Photographer
Kashish Parpiani
Photographer
Raj Lalwani
Photographer & Editor - Better Photography
Krishnendu Saha
Photographer
Ritika Baheti
Photographer
Chirodeep Chaudhuri
Photographer & Editor National Geographic Traveler India
EXHIBITIONS
John Issac
The Art of Seeing
Kulwant Roy
Visual Archives
TNA Perumal
Wildlife Series
D. Ravinder Reddy
Flashback
Russell Hart
Old and New Views
Rajan Babu(1938 - 2011)
Nude in Nature
Balan Madhavan
Songs of Silence
Michael Chavez
The Driest Seasons : The California Dust Bowl
Ilknur Can
iPhone Street Photography from Cuba
K Ramesh Babu
Eyes View
Ritika Baheti
I, Pot
Joe Hamel
The northern lights
Ben Lowy
Iraq Perspectives - Windows
Metro Collective
Americas
Barbara Davidson
Victims trapped in deadly gang violence
Thats Life
Ordinary Lives
Daniel Schumann
Purple Brown Grey White Black
Ron Haviv (VII Photo)
Children of Darfur
Telangana Photographic Society
Pictorial
Alexia Foundation
Children Affected by Cancer
Alexia Foundation
The collapse of Rana Plaza
Bharath Bhushan
Rural Telangana
Jack Dykinga
Light on the land
Veeresh Babu
Lambada's
Auckland Festival of Photography
Commissioned works
Raja Triyambak Raja
Head On Photo Festival
Headon Portrait Prize Finalists - 2015
Daniel Jamang
Everyone's a hero Na banno
Ben Lowy
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Lala Deen Dayal(1884-1910)
Portraits
Yannick Cormier
Nari Kuravars
Shuchi Kapoor
The Unreasonables
Cheryl Diaz
Life at Baghdad Mental Hospital
1 in 20
Marvi Lacar
Raj Lalwani / Kashish Parpiani
Marwan Tales
Vishal Anjukandi
Expressions
Sujatro Ghosh
25th Hour
Sreesailam Pasupula
Celebrating Krishna
Jagadish Rana
Hallucination
Vineet Vohra
Street view
Arindam Thokdarc
Vanishing phone
Subrata Biswas
Purulia Diary
Swastik Pal
Nepal Earthquake
Indrajit Khambe
Chasing the question mark
Monica Tiwari
Gurgaon
Satish
Sholinghur Monkey
Mitul Kajaria
A Place called HOME
Catrine Val
PHILOSOPHER the Lotus Chronicle
Dipjyoti Banik
"Bangalore Chronicles
Sujata Khanna
Unsung Lives
Mansi Thapliyal
Surrogate Mothers
Telangana Photographic Society
Nature & Landscape
Romi Perbawa
The riders of destiny
Debashish
Stardust
Ronny Sen
The End
Kannagi Khannaa
HOLLYWOOD
Chirodeep Choudhury
A village in Bengal
Marja Pirila
Interior/ Exterior
Farhad Rahman
One Last Playground
Shadman | White Elphant
John Issac
Wildlife Series
Chinky Shukla
Jadugoda-the nuclear graveyard
Abhishek Hajela
Viewfinder: Experiments, People, Places
Neel Dongre Grant
Re-imaging :: The people of IndiaState Museum