Friends at Rachna announces the opening of a display of photographs by local enthusiasts under the banner "Aperture Culture" on The First Floor at Rachna Books starting 16th November 2008. 

Six photo enthusiasts - some professionals, all published, have come together to share the photos taken by them to the people of the eastern Himalaya- everyone's invited! The team consists of Suraj Gurung, ST Wangdi, Karma Loday, Birendra Rai, Karchoong Diyali and Raman Shresta.
 
Because Aperture Culture is an open platform for using photography as a mode of creativity and self-expression, there is no rigidity of themes that this never-ending event follows. This is evident from the nature of all 42 photos that is going to be on display this Sunday onwards.
 
Photos at Aperture Culture are going to be on display and sale permanently at the first floor of the bookshop. To keep things interesting for the audience, the display will be changed on a regular basis.
 
The main motive behind this display is to introduce to the people - specially the school-children and the youth - the versatile, innovative and personal mode of expression that photography is. Perhaps this could also inspire them to take up photography as a hobby if not seriously. With this in mind, and in anticipation, the Aperture Culture team invites all budding photo enthusiasts to come and participate in this event with their photos. Plans are on to hold similar displays for such entries on a regular basis in time to come. The entries should not be bigger than 8 inches X 12 inches and should be framed.
 
It is also worthwhile noting here that two of the photographers in the Aperture Culture team have now gone international! Some works by Karchoong Diyali and Raman Shresta are going to be on display at the 4th edition of Magic Garage in Los Angeles this weekend. Magic Garage has been providing a platform for art, music and any form of creativity for a long time now.
 
This event has been jointly brought together by Pixel ART, Small Town Film Club and Rachna Books.

Glimpses of some photos of the exhibition can be viewed here .

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