PRESENTER
Sagar Shrestha
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Sagar Shrestha is a freelance Photojournalist who has been practicing the trade for the past12 years. He was born in Kathmandu in 1970 and has since traveled the breadth and distance of Nepal. Shrestha ventured into the world of photography while still in school but his first professional gig came in 1996 when he started to work with a Nepali daily paper Himalaya Times. At the same time he also began working for Bimochan, a monthly magazine. From 1997 he joined Saptahik and Sarbottam. Then in 2000, Space Time hired him. From 2003 to 2005, he was with Nepal Samacharpatra Nepali daily. At present, Shrestha is affiliated with Independent News Service (INS) and UNMIN. His other clients have included OHCHR, DFID, PANOS South Asia, The Carter Center, and others. Shrestha has won many awards including consolation Prize at the Asia Pacific Photo Competition in Japan in 2000, Prize of Excellence in Asia Pacific Photo Competition in Japan in 2001, Grand Prize Winner of National Press Photo Contest organized by NFPJ in 2007.
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www.sagarshrestha.com.np
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PRESENTATIONS
Lest we forget
Sagar's Shrestha's visual documentation of 12 years of the "People's War" helps to trace the grim political timeline that serves as history for most Nepalis growing up in the 21st Century. His images are uncompromising and tell the truth.
Presented at photo.circle.iv
(7 April 2007)
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