PRESENTER
Sailendra Kharel
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Sailendra Kharel, (b. 1982) is a photojournalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal having deep interest in investigative socio-political human documentary stories. He started his career as a photojournalist in 2004, covering the armed conflict in western Nepal for the Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post, Nepal's leading Nepali and English national dailies. In 2007, he completed his diploma in photojournalism given from IIJB, Germany. He is currently a student of BA in Journalism. In 2007, he got an opportunity to take part in WORKSHOP ASIA, a documentary photo workshop conducted by Jack Picone, Steve Coleman and Stephen Dupont in Kathmandu. On the same year he was selected as one of 30 young emerging Asian photographers, to participate in a Free Photo Documentry Workshop at the Angkor Photography Festival, in Cambodia. In 2007 itself, Kharel won 1st prize in Environment and 3rd prize in Feature category in the local Press Photo Contest (NFPJ). His work has been widely published and exhibited in Nepal. Nationally and internationally, his pictures have been published in OGlobo (Brazil), The Alps Magazine (Switzerland), BBC Online, Tehelka (India), Himal South Asian, Kantipur Daily, The Kathmandu Post, Nepal Magazine, Himal Magazine, Nepali Times, A People's War (book on Nepal's Conflict), etc. For him, "photography is an art of expressing human psychology through light".
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PRESENTATIONS
Human Parcel
On an average day, two dead bodies of Nepali workers arrive at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) received twenty-two applications for the shipment of bodies in the month of Poush (16 December 2007 - 17 January 2008) alone.
Presented at photo.circle.xv
(1 March 2008)
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