Canon India hosts Photography Workshop for Photojournalists in Jaipur
Canon India Pvt. Limited has hosted a photography workshop for photo journalists at Shiv Vilas Palace in Jaipur. The two day workshop was said to be an informative weekend getaway for the attendees. The workshop was attended by 44 photojournalists from the Delhi and Mumbai, media fraternity.
The two-day workshop included a welcome note by Seiji Hamanishi, Assistant Director, ICP, Canon India and Jai Kumar Pillai, Marketing Manager, ICP, Canon India.
He said, "We thank you for your presence today and appreciate the warm response received for our initiative. Through our workshop, we hope to consolidate the pool of talent in the field of photography that can take photography, as a profession, to the next stage. We intend to provide the photographers an apt platform and give them equal opportunities to display their talent. In addition, we would also like to showcase and give a feel to the participants of the high-end Canon equipment, which are suitable for this form of photography. We hope to organize similar workshops in the future as well and appreciate."
This was followed by insightful workshops/sessions on Imperative and Ethics of Photo Journalism. On the second day, there were two workshops. The first was on Photosynthesis – contemporary photography and the second session on Photography and hurdles faced by modern day photographers. The workshops aimed at providing awareness and besides aesthetics sense, they highlighted upon the needs to have a definite level of sensitivity & receptiveness towards the environment coupled with a technical bent of mind, and how photographs should be individualistic too representing the emotions of the photographer. Challenges that photographers faced everyday was also one of the most discussed topics in these workshops.
The workshop witnessed sessions by Chaitanya Kalbag, Editor-Business Today, Subi Chaturvedi, a Filmmaker & a media practitioner activist and Dinesh Khanna, an independent photographer, who specializes in travel photography.
The sessions conducted gave an opportunity to interact with the professionals and learn the art of photography from them.
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