YPS Saturday Meet | Feb 22, Sat | 5:30 PM IST | Montage Creation | Google Meet

Presentation by:

Mr Adit Agarwala,
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Montage, a creative technique using various images is a very specialised genre of photography!

Mr Adit Agarwala, with his expertise in this genre will take us thru the in-camera and post-camera process, overcome problems, mistakes and create striking surreal images, in an interactive session.

About Mr Adit Agarwala,
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As an alumnus and honorary lecturer at the Photographic Association of Dum Dum (PAD) in Kolkata, his expertise spans decades. He was a Member of the organizing committee of International Photographic Conferences by PAD, Calcutta (1986 -1998). He is a co-author of 2 books ‘Learn Photography’ and ‘Experimental Photography’ published by PAD. He has been a jury in national and international salons since 1987, a Chief Coordinator of Chandigarh FIP Convention,1998 and organized the first Indo-Pakistan ‘DOSTI Photo Show’ in Chandigarh in 2004.

He is the Founder President of ‘Friends of Photography’ Chandigarh (2000-2005) and a recipient of more than 150 awards (Gold, Silver & Bronze medals), Honorary Mentions and cash awards from national and international salons and contests from India, USA, UK, France, China, Taiwan, Belgium, South Africa, Serbia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Singapore, Malaysia, Austria, Holland, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Romania, Hungary, Luxembourg and South Korea. He is a 4 times recipient of  ‘Best Indian Entrant Award’ in international salons held in India and the 1st Indian to be awarded the 1st prize at ‘Photojournalist of the year’ contest in 1989 sponsored by the Photographic Society of America.

He was Honored as one of the six Indian Pictorialists by the Photographic Society of Pakistan and invited to contribute photographs to the Exhibition ‘Tribute to the Legends of Photography’ exhibition held in 2005 in Pakistan.

Mr Agarwala’s photographic works were included in KKL-Bilderbank, Austria / Germany (of top 25 Photographers) and published in a booklet of the State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow.

He was interviewed by Doordarshan, has conducted workshops in photography and has delivered talks on photographic art at various photographic associations.

He was an advisor to ‘Tricity Photo Art Society’ Chandigarh (2015-2019), a Patron of Lens Maestro Group, India, associate editor of ‘Viewfinder’ (1997-2001) the official monthly journal of the Federation of Indian Photography, the associate editor of Blue Sapphire, a 2019 Coffee Table publication of FIP compiling various articles on photographic history, arts and science.

Mr Agarwala was a Member of the Working Committee of the Federation of Indian Photography (FIP) 2017-2018, Vice President (2019-2020) and President of FIP 2021-2024. Mr Adit Agarwala was conferred Honorary YPS at the FIP Convention 2024 in Mysuru.

Language: English

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