Patan: Through The Eyes of a Photographer - Street Photography in Kathmandu with JU & his Hasselblad
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Published 2023-11-06
Jagadish Upadhya
During my first trip in Nepal in February 2023 I had the pleasure and honor to meet Professor Jagadish Upadhya. From the beginning, and even before, of my trip in Nepal it was my intention to find analog photographers in Nepal. At first it seemed impossible, I went to every photographic shop and they would look at me a little bit confused when I would ask them about film photography or photographers, as if I was speaking of a prehistorical time long forgotten by now. Then, like it often happens, I randomly found a good lead that one day brought me at Jagadish Upadhya's house and his Film Foundry studio, a last stronghold for analog photography lovers. Jagadish warmly welcomed me, I was as curious of him as he was of me, and we exchanged a lot of interesting information about different subjects. Eventually a lot of habitués started passing by, apparently without any notice. I really loved the relaxed athmosphere. From Jagadish I heard his stories from when he used to live in different parts of the world, France, US, Australia. Apparently he was supposed to become an aviator but then realized he was more interested in art than aviation.
So, before leaving I proposed him to go for a photo session around Kathmandu where I would film him. He agreed and he choose Patan district where he was born and grew up. We had such a nice walk, I had visited the district before but with him it was something completely different. I saw many hidden places I had not seen before, and many stories about the neighborhood. It was a fantastic day and photo session that I humbly tried to document with this video. I hope you will enjoy it.
Go to check his film_foundry instagram page
All Comments (21)
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Well done. Bravo!
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Nice 💗💗💗
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Very interesting ❤
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Namasute, He takes wonderful photos! It make me want to take square format photos .And it make me want to go to Nepal again.
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Keep going!! Just wow
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Fascinating! Brilliant work!
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What a great video
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Amazing
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Bravo Hermes!
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Perfectly shoot keep doing man you deserve millions of subs❤
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😍
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Bravo!
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wow...been theough those streets of patan a few times and this video definately has been an inspiration and looking it through his lens was really awesome...Thank you for this experience.
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❤
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Great video my friend ☮️
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Seems to be there 😍
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thank u my friend ❤❤❤
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Its fascinating to see people still doing old school photography in the world of reels. I left photography a while ago
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Its a hit
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Jagdish dai legend