The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) is working for national integration, and promotes research and training for salvaging and revitalising the vanishing but valuable cultural traditions. On the occasion of World Photography Day, the IGRMS commenced a photography training workshop for school students.
The photography workshop was inaugurated by Arun Kumar Shrivastava, IGRMS Director, Assistant Curator Arun Kiro, RM Nayal, Photography Officer Tapas Vishwas and participants by lighting the lamp.
Speaking on this occasion, the IGRMS Director, said, "Photography is popular amongst the youth of today. We are organizing this workshop to give basic training of photography to the school children so that they are perfect in the science part of photography and art is inside them already". Shrivasatava also said that an exhibition of the best clicked photographs of this workshop can be mounted.
The first session of the workshop was taken by photography officer of IGRMS, Tapas Vishwas. Through a presentation Vishwas taught students the basic concepts of photography like composition, simplicity, contrast, rule of thirds, perspective, foreground-background, color, shadow, focus, lighting, exposure etc. The second session was taken by Senior Photographer Sunil Alpuriya, where he gave an introduction of camera and its types and explained its parts. Forty students of standard 9th to 12th from different schools are participating in this workshop.