KATHMANDU, July 19: Nepali photographers organized a two-day photo exhibition in Berlin, the capital of Germany, with the aim of raising funds for Nepali earthquake victims, on July 15 and 16.
Entitled 'Images from the Himalayan Foothills,' the exhibition featured 30 photographs on culture, landscape and daily life in Nepal by Chandra Shekhar Karki, Photo Editor at Nepal Republic Media; photographer Aishu Mathema, and Deepak Tolange, who has been studying Visual and Media Anthropology in Berlin under DAAD scholarship.
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Held in The Ballery, an art gallery in Berlin, the exhibition was attended by the representatives of various embassies and international non-government organizations.
Deepak Tolange, who is also the organizer of the exhibition, said, "Following Nepali photographers' idea, we have planned to establish an audio-visual museum about earthquakes in Nepal. It can act as a stop for people who want information on the natural disaster."
The first day of the exhibition also saw live music performance by Ranav Adhikari, Pradeep Bikram Rana and Germany's Andreas Richter. German filmmaker Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg and Niels Negendank's 'Göttin auf Zeit,' a 10-minute documentary based on Kathmandu's Living Goddess Kumari was also screened.
Fifty percent of the funds raised through the sales of photographs and postcards from the exhibition will go directly into the Prime Minister's Relief Fund via The Embassy of Nepal in Berlin. The other 50% will be used to initiate the audio-visual museum.
