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IIMC unveils certificate course in photo journalism STAFF WRITER 19:21 HRS IST New Delhi, Aug 10 (PTI) Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) today unveiled a full time month-long certificate course in photo journalism. Inaugurated by Stuti Kacker, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the nodal ministry for the institute, the course began today and will go on till September 9, 2009. The aim of the programme is to equip the participants with a thorough grounding in the methodologies of conventional and digital photo journalism. Keeping in the mind, the overwhelming demand of photographic input in media and its growth as an independent genre, IIMC has launched the course, which has 12 students participating from different states. Prof Vijay Parmar of IIMC and Devatosh Sengupta, director of Photo Division will coordinate the course. It will encourage students to develop a wider vision of the practice and potential of the medium of documentary and reportage photography.
