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.
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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.
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Team
Aquin Mathews | Festival Director
Chandrasekhar Singh | Programming Head
Swarat Ghosh | Program Manager
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Festival Committee
Vinay Parab | Ismail Shariff | Namrata Rupani | Nishanth Kumar Biderkote | Raj Kumar | Nivedita. N
SPEAKERS
John Issac
Former Photography Head United Nations
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Balan Madhavan
Wildlife Photographer & ILCP Fellow
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Benjamin Lowy
Photojournalist Reportage By Getty
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Russell Hart
Former Photo - Editor American Photo
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Barbara Davidson
Pulitzer Winning - LA Times Staff Photographer
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Aditya Arya
Photographer & Archivist IPAF
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D. Ravinder Reddy
Photojournalist
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Michael Bonfigli
Photo Journalist Metro Collective
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Amit Mehra
Documentary Photographer
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Samar S Jodha
Photographer - Artist
K. Vishwender Reddy
Photographer - Artist
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Ravi Reddy
Photographer
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Chinky Shukla
Photojournalist
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Michael Monteiro
Photographer
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Kashish Parpiani
Photographer
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Raj Lalwani
Photographer & Editor - Better Photography
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Krishnendu Saha
Photographer
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Ritika Baheti
Photographer
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Chirodeep Chaudhuri
Photographer & Editor National Geographic Traveler India
EXHIBITIONS
John Issac
The Art of Seeing
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Kulwant Roy
Visual Archives
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TNA Perumal
Wildlife Series
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D. Ravinder Reddy
Flashback
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Russell Hart
Old and New Views
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Rajan Babu(1938 - 2011)
Nude in Nature
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Balan Madhavan
Songs of Silence
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Michael Chavez
The Driest Seasons : The California Dust Bowl
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Ilknur Can
iPhone Street Photography from Cuba
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K Ramesh Babu
Eyes View
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Ritika Baheti
I, Pot
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Joe Hamel
The northern lights
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Ben Lowy
Iraq Perspectives - Windows
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Metro Collective
Americas
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Barbara Davidson
Victims trapped in deadly gang violence
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Thats Life
Ordinary Lives
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Daniel Schumann
Purple Brown Grey White Black
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Ron Haviv (VII Photo)
Children of Darfur
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Telangana Photographic Society
Pictorial
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Alexia Foundation
Children Affected by Cancer
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Alexia Foundation
The collapse of Rana Plaza
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Bharath Bhushan
Rural Telangana
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Jack Dykinga
Light on the land
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Veeresh Babu
Lambada's
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Auckland Festival of Photography
Commissioned works
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Raja Triyambak Raja
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Head On Photo Festival
Headon Portrait Prize Finalists - 2015
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Daniel Jamang
Everyone's a hero Na banno
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Ben Lowy
istreet
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Lala Deen Dayal(1884-1910)
Portraits
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Yannick Cormier
Nari Kuravars
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Shuchi Kapoor
The Unreasonables
Cheryl Diaz
Life at Baghdad Mental Hospital
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1 in 20
Marvi Lacar
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Raj Lalwani / Kashish Parpiani
Marwan Tales
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Vishal Anjukandi
Expressions
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Sujatro Ghosh
25th Hour
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Sreesailam Pasupula
Celebrating Krishna
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Jagadish Rana
Hallucination
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Vineet Vohra
Street view
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Arindam Thokdarc
Vanishing phone
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Subrata Biswas
Purulia Diary
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Swastik Pal
Nepal Earthquake
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Indrajit Khambe
Chasing the question mark
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Monica Tiwari
Gurgaon
Satish
Sholinghur Monkey
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Mitul Kajaria
A Place called HOME
Catrine Val
PHILOSOPHER the Lotus Chronicle
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Dipjyoti Banik
"Bangalore Chronicles
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Sujata Khanna
Unsung Lives
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Mansi Thapliyal
Surrogate Mothers
Telangana Photographic Society
Nature & Landscape
Romi Perbawa
The riders of destiny
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Debashish
Stardust
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Ronny Sen
The End
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Kannagi Khannaa
HOLLYWOOD
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Chirodeep Choudhury
A village in Bengal
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Marja Pirila
Interior/ Exterior
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Farhad Rahman
One Last Playground
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Shadman | White Elphant
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John Issac
Wildlife Series
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Chinky Shukla
Jadugoda-the nuclear graveyard
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Abhishek Hajela
Viewfinder: Experiments, People, Places
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Neel Dongre Grant
Re-imaging :: The people of IndiaState Museum