Frames, composition, aperture, wide, telephoto are words now being used by Preeti, Deepa, girls who are part of photography workshop, organised at Gwalior from September 16-18, 2013 by Department of Women and Child Development and UNICEF office for Madhya Pradesh at Gwalior.
This is a three day workshop wherein 30 girls from districts of Morena, Shivpuri and Gwalior are participated.Neelam Sharma adolescent girl from Morena who was part of the earlier workshop in year 2010 is also participating in this meeting and encouraging her peers to learn. Neelam now wishes to take up this as her career.
In the workshop girls were provided digital cameras by Department of Women and Child Development and were trained on basic skills of using camera how to compose frames, parts of camera, and were taken to field to expose them to give them hands one use of camera and its intricacies. Nishant Sharma and Nipun Prabhakar, young photographers from Bhopal are training the girls along with Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist with UNICEF office for Madhya Pradesh.
The workshop ended today. Speaking at the closure of the workshop Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist this is part of Joint effort of Department of Women and Child Develeopment and UNICEF to provide platform for adolescent to express their thought using 'power of lens'. Office of Joint Director Women and Child Development will follow up with the girls and we hope to bring them back after few months to share their experience and also strengthen their skills further.
Photographs clicked by them were shown back to them and feedback given to them by Nishant and Nipun photographers, so that they compose them better. Participants were also shared about ethics of photography by the trainers.