Wonderful. Simply wonderful. In fact I was asking my colleagues at Score Foundation (my workplace) few days ago is there any advertisement appears on Indian television where a blind person is portrayed as a role model? And I'm glad to know progress is being made on this front. eagerly waiting for the Shoot documentary alongwith captioned photograph! And Partho sir, if you come to delhi please inform us. We will organise a talk by you in JNU. Who knows A blind photographer may transform the art of capturing moments/events in India in future?...
On 4/28/14, Partho Bhowmik <[email protected]> wrote: > Last Sunday April 20th was a great day for Blind With Camera, a project of > the Beyond Sight Foundation Mumbai India. Bhavesh Patel (complete blind) > was shooting photographs of Indian actress Katrina Kaif for the LUX soap > campaign. Bhavesh is trained in photography under Blind With Camera since > 2010. > > This is for the first time in the world a commercial shoot is done be a > visually impaired photographer. > > Bhavesh is being paid as per industry standard. He is treated with dignity > by the stakeholders Unilever India, JWT Mumbai and Firecracker > Entertainment Mumbai. > Bhavesh summarise his experience by saying "Visually Impaired Person (VIP) > has become a Very Important Person (VIP)". > > The campaign brings out the fragrance and "inner beauty" of glamorous > lady as experienced by a visually impaired photographer. Once the campaign > is released Unilever, I will post the pictures of Katrina taken by Bhavesh > and the documentary film on shoot. > > Click the below link to view the picture of Katrina, Bhavesh and Partho > http://www.blindwithcamera.org/events-news/ > > Best Regards > Partho > > Partho Bhowmick > Initiator of Blind With Camera project > Founder of Beyond Sight Foundation > Mumbai, India > Tele:+91-022-28701761 > Mobile: +91-982147473 > www.blindwithcamera.org > www.blindwithcameraschool.org > > > Beyond Sight Foundation is a nonprofit organisation promoting social > integration of people with visual impairment through art and cultural > practices, by providing training in arts making, developing of creative > skills, providing opportunity to exhibit artworks, equal access to art, > economic opportunity and enriching community and general public through > renewed art, and by offering sensitization workshops & settings and > capacity building for blind centric art culture in India. > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > -- Avinash Shahi M.Phil Research Scholar Centre for The Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
