PhotoKTM photo exhibition in Kathmandu: a review

This is a part of 'project 110, going back and re-filling', writing is happening 8ish months after the date.

This is a review of the PhotoKTM photo exhibition organized in the February of 2023. I know a few people who were in the organization committee, which would otherwise influence my impression of the event, were it not for the fact that they don't know I'm writing this, this is backdated like hell, and also I don't give an 'eff about nothin' man. Dunno, not a big deal.

I was really really impressed. The opening ceremonies were so artistic, so creative and inspirational. So strange yet approachable, loved that!

The exhibits were spread out throughout the old city of Patan, it took us two days to go through all of them. Some were better than others, but the general quality was quite high. I would go through pretty decent pains to be able to attend this event the next time. Some were rather boring, or perhaps we were knackered out by the end of the day and couldn't be bothered to go through the whole of exhibit. The volunteers were extraordinarily smart, driven and motivated, and offered to engage with us even as we had critiques of the exhibits. Man if one could get such volunteers as permanent employees at scale, their workplace would thrive and be extremely competitive at a global scale.

My only issue with the exhibition, not really anything to with organization or logistics but the content of the exhibits itself, was some of them were de-growther and came from a strange left-leaning noble-savages narrative. But that's the goal of exhibits like these: to start the conversation and provoke thought among the viewers. In that sense they completely succeeded.

So so well organized, planned and thought-out. Highly recommend folks attend the next round. I just wish I'd been able to make the dating event, stupidly organized a separate event to co-incide with that and was unwilling to reschedule it.