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Exiled Bhutanese feature in photo exhibition in Netherland

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:51 PM PDT

A two-week long photo exhibition depicting the pathetic life of exiled Bhutanese in various camps of Nepal has been underway since September 1.

The exhibition poster

Several have already visited the exhibition hall in Creative Warehouse HOOP, Grote Markt 10, the Hague, according to Alice Verheij, a Dutch filmmaker, whose film Headwind is being planned to be screen from early 2012.

Altogether 50 photographs taken by Verheij during her visit to camps in Nepal earlier this year, Prakash Angdambe and Eveline van de Putte, have been exhibited to show life in and around the refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang.

Verheij told Bhutan News Service over phone that the exhibition is part of the Headwind art project that intends deliver an English language novel titled ‘Headwind’ – Laxmi’s Story’ to be published in Nepal later this year, and a documentary about a Bhutanese family living in exile in The Netherlands and Nepal aimed at the major film festivals across the globe.

The Headwind project has been supported by the Empowerment Foundation, the Bhutanese Community in the Netherlands, art center HOOP in The Hague, and Dutch Refugees Foundation ‘Vluchtelingenwerk’, among others.

MNB completes photography training

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:12 AM PDT

The Media Network Bhutan (MNB) completed its week-long photography training amidst grand closing ceremony in Beldangi, Thursday.

A participant's picture

Altogether 35 participants of various age groups took part in the training, informed Executive General of the Network, Monarath Pokhrel.

Among them, some of them were schoolteachers and social workers.

Local photographer and artist Prakash Angdambe, journalists Vidhyapati Mishra and Jeetan Subba, and German photographer Felix Jakael facilitated the training sessions from September 3–8, according to Pokhrel.

Speaking at the event, Field Director of the Caritas Nepal Father Amalraj appreciated the MNB’s efforts to train youths on photography.

“Whoever brings in such programs, I am happy to support them,” said Amalraj, “All those programs are aimed at enhancing capacities of the Bhutanese youths in exile.”

The Network said it was also planning to organize the photo exhibition to promote the best pictures of the participants in various sometime later this month.

A photograph taken by Junu Subba during the training

A scene of suspension bridge over the Ratuwa River photographed by Sunita Rai