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Title: Retrospect on my Life as a
Photographer
Where
& When: September 17th, 2007
Room A1
Newhouse 1
7 pm
Type
of Activity: South Asia Center Speaker
Speaking: Pablo Bartholomew
Summary:
Currently based in New Delhi,
Pablo Bartholomew divides
his
time between photography,
running
photography
workshops, and managing a software company that specializes
in photo databases solutions and server-based digital
archiving systems.
Named the “Best Young Photographer,” by the Press Institute
of India in 1975, Pablo won the 1976 World Press Photo award
for
Picture Story
with the series: “Morphine Addicts in India,”
and the
World Press Photo
Picture of the Year Award
for “the Bhopal Gas Tragedy” (1985). Over the years, he has
held a number of fellowships, including one from the Asian
Cultural Council, New York (1991),
to photograph Indian immigrants
in the USA, and one from the Institute of Comparative
Studies in Human Culture, Norway (1995),
to photograph the Naga tribes in
India.
Pablo has exhibited his
photographs in India and abroad, most recently at
Photography Week in Tokyo,
Japan, and
Rencontres d’Arles Photography festival
in France. His photographs will be part of
Newark Museum’s
Indian Photography & Video Festival to be held in September,
2007. Pablo
Bartholomew’s photographs have been published in
Newsweek,
Time,
National Geographic,
Life,
Le Figaro Magazine
(France),
and
Geo
(France) amongst other prestigious journals.
Sponsorship:
The South Asia Center
