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Feb 12th 2012 – TEDxBITSGoa BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus. TED is a global platform devoted to ‘Ideas worth Spreading’. It is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design – three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. Partho Bhowmick will deliver an illustrated talk on inspiring story on the making of Blind With Camera. To know more click here

Feb 6th & 7th 2012 – Tech Share New Delhi. Tech Share is a global event that spreads awareness about adaptive technologies that enables people with disabilities to live independently. Since 2008 the event is organized in India by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) UK along with Indian partners the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) and Barrier Break Technologies. Blind With Camera will conduct workshop at Tech Share 2012 to showcase how a combination of touch & feel raised pictures, Braille, Large Print, visual aids and Audio Description (AD) can be used to access and enjoy photographs (other visual arts) by the visually impaired. To know more click here 

Feb 3rd & 4th 2012 – Conference on “Arts Education and Social Justice” Bangalore. India Federation for Arts (IFA) Bangalore together with Geothe Institute Bangalore is hosting a national conference on the theme of “Arts Education and Social Justice.”  Work from Blind With Camera will be exhibited at the conference, Partho will be part of the panel discussion on ” The Art of Disability in the Classroom.” To know more chick here

Feb 2nd to 5th 2012 – Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society Cochin. Blind With Camera under the title “Sensory Photography by the Blind and Partially Sighted – Genesis of Imagery and Sensory Substitution” will be presented jointly by Dr Kaushik Murali, Dr Rajat Chabba (both from the Sankara Eye Hospital, Bangalore) and Partho at the 70th Annual Conference of All India Ophthalmological Society at Cochin. To know more chick here
 
Jan 14th & 15th 2012: Photo workshop at the Poona School for the Blind Boys and Girls, Pune - Air was full of excitement, much more visually impaired joined the workshop then was expected, all got a chance to hold a camera and shoot a picture. Each picture taken them had a story to tell and few pictures  would amaze you.

Dec 20th 2011: Goa Art & Literary Festival – Partho spoke on “What happens when BLIND pick up cameras” to a group of cerebral audience which  included Dr. Shahidul Alam (DRIK Bangladesh), Pablo Bartholomew (World Press Photographer), Dr. Alka Pande (Director India Habitat Center New Delhi) and many more. 

Dec 3rd 2011 (World Disability Day) – Bajaj Art Gallery Mumbai. “Right Click” is an exhibition of photographs taken by visually impaired photographers and sighted photographers to capture the challenges faced by children with disability in the field of education and social participation. This exhibition is the outcome of collaboration between Blind With Camera and CRY (Child Rights & You)

Oct 2nd to 8th 2011 - As part of the Joy of Giving Week, work from Blind With Camera from 2006 to 2010 was exhibitied under the title “THE VIEW FROM HERE” at the Gallery Art & Soul in Mumbai. Along with normal photographs the exhibition offered a comblination of touch & feel raised pictures, Braille notes, Large Prints, visual aids and Audio Description (AD) for the visually impaired visitors to access and enjoy the exhibits as much as the sighted visitors.

 

 

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13th to 15th August 2011 - Photography workshop will be conducted in a blind school run by the Lok Vishwas Pratishthan, Ponda Goa. Most children with complete blindness to partial blindness took pictures for the first time in their lives. The workshop is supported by Canon India.

 

13th to 15th August 2011 - Residency workshop on alternative photography was conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Alternative Photography, Goa. Low vision / partial blind people who were previously into photography attending this workshop. They took pictures using pinhole, 35mm, mid and large format camera, and also worked in darkroom to develop films and print black & white photographs.  For most participants the workshop was significant and emotional as it reconnect to them photography as they had left it due to sight problem. The workshop is supported by Canon India.

 

11th June to 7th Sept 2011 - Photography workshops was conducted with the visually impaired students of the St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. Work coming out of this workshop will be exhibited at Antarchakshu (The Eye Within), a multi sensory event promoted by the XRCVC (Xavier’s Resource Centre for Visually Challenged) on 8th & 9th of September 2011. Workshops and up coming exhibition is supported by Canon India.

17th March 2011 - Blindfold Photography Workshop conducted for employees of the Edelweiss Group Mumbai.

8th January – 31 March 2011: Blindfold Photography Workshop for at the HVB Global Academy Mumbai where students will learn the art of photography using non-visual senses. Trainers include ”actual” visually impaired photographers will be trainers for the workshop, leading to “reversal” of role.   
 
 

 

18th Nov to 3rd  Dec 2010 – Exhibition at the DaDa International Disability Art Festival, Liverpool (UK) and
illustarted talk on the making of Blind With Camera at the Nehru Centre London (cultural wing of the Indian High
Comission in UK).