For all enquires about our next amazing workshop event in Kathmandu July 9th – 14th email Jack Picone here: jack@jackpicone.com
February 27, 2013
Kathmandu Workshop July 9th – 14th 2013
September 8, 2011
REPUBLICA
Workshop participant Cim Sears has the work she authored during the Kathmandu workshop published in Nepal’s Republica. Please view Cim’s images and story on education in Nepal here.
June 3, 2011
Meditation On The Death Of A Hero
An insightful, thought-provoking and beautifully written piece on conflict photography by Melanie Light. It centres around the recent demise of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros both killed while covering the ongoing political turmoil in Libya.
Curiously enough, I had just had a conversation with a very talented young multimedia journalist who is being seduced by the powerful current that is war photography. I was imparting to him the acute danger associated with covering conflict and asking him to question the true worth of it, to himself, family and friends.
My animated and at times passionate delivery to him, heavily laden with reasons why not to go down this particular path, felt somewhat hypocritical as it left my lips.
Sadly, I could see my rhetoric was not reaching its mark.
Jack
April 8, 2011
‘More Money On Fancy Equipment’
If you want to take a picture as beautiful as this image of this Nepalese child, you can either hope for some extraordinary fluke of light, timing, subject matter and hardware — or you can sign up for The Jack Picone Photography Workshops. Award-winning Australian documentary photographer Jack Picone — who took this shot — leads these intensive , one-week courses for dedicated amateurs hoping to take their photography to the next level. Held two or three times a year in various Asian cities (the next is scheduled for Kathmandu in July 2011), the courses have previously featured guest lecturers such as the legendary photojournalist Tim Page and celebrated war photographer Philip Jones Griffiths. There are no more than 12 to 16 participants at a time, and all are thrown in at the deep end — tasked with producing a professional-quality photo essay by the end of the week. To help them, there are robust discussions, sessions of one-on-one tuition and nightly show-and-tells, during which each day’s images are critiqued. Fees range between $2,400 and $2,700. It isn’t cheap, and does not include accommodation and flights — but, there are hobbyists and those obsessed with photography who spend infinitely more on fancy equipment but still can’t produce an arresting image.
Don’t be one of them.
For more information, mail Jack, jack@jackpicone.com and visit http://www.jackpicone.com
Original article by Liam Fitzpatrick published in the Global Advisor section of TIME magazine.
February 22, 2011
Hotel Vajra
The Hotel Vajra is the venue for our upcoming workshop in Kathmandu
Please view the Vajra’s website here: http://www.hotelvajra.com
For participants attending our next workshop in Kathmandu 11th July-16th July 2011 and wanting to stay at the venue, please mail the Vajra direct to book your accommodation:
Email: info@hotelvajra.com, vajra@mos.com.np
Vignettes of Kathmandu
by CommuniqueOpening lines from, The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes.
There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu,
There’s a little marble cross below the town;
There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
© All Photographs taken with the FujiFilm X/100 camera, in Kathmandu by Jack Picone
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