KARACHI: Graduation and exposition of the oeuvres of the Professional Diploma in Photography (35th batch) students conducted by Rahmatullah Khan was held here at Alliance Française on Saturday 14th December, 2019.
On the occasion Director Alliance Monsieur Gilles Pascal, who himself is an ace photographer, facilitated the passing students and handed over the diplomas to them.
Those who received the Professional Diploma in Photography included Aiza, Atifuddin, Haniya, Muqadus, Nargis, Usman, Sana, Fahim, Mariam and Shafqut.
Relevant pieces published earlier:
Photo Exposition at Alliance Francaise de Karachi
KARACHI: Venue was the Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre) de Karachi (AFK) where photography students of the 33rd Batch displayed their works at graduation ceremony. Speaking on the occasion Professor Rahmatullah Khan informed that pupils were not only given indoor lectures but were also taken out on Sundays in order to enable them to focus on various themes. He told that most of the students were already in the profession who wanted to further ameliorate their expertise. Rahmatullah said that with the expansion of trade and business activities the opportunities for photographers were also expanding. One can specialize in wedding, sports, wildlife, food (product) and fashion photography.
Graduation ceremony & Exposition of the works of pupils of 31st batch of AFK’s Diploma in Professional Photography!
KARACHI: French Cultural Centre (Alliance Française de Karachi)’s main Art Gallery was the venue where eight graduating students of the 31st batch of Diploma in Professional Photography exposed their works. Director Alliance Française Gilles Pascal and MD Canon Muhammad Mahmud Naqvi gave away the diplomas to the successful students. Adrian Lobo received the award for the best creative work while Abdul Rafey Hasan was judged the best student of the batch. Speaking to the Newspakistan.tv (official partner BBCNEWS) Professor Rahmatullah Khan informed: “In 2006 we have introduced 1-year diploma in photography for the first time in Pakistan! It is an internationally recognized diploma. Pupils learn different photography techniques. We teach almost everything from A to Z, except under-water photography because not everyone can do that. Works of eight students are being displayed in this exhibition. Each student is exposing 30 of his photographs. During the six-month diploma course each student captures 8000 photographs. Out of that we select & display the best ones”.
Prof. Rahmatullah Khan teaching Photography since 1989
KARACHI: To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Rahmatullah Khan’s association with Alliance Française as Professor of Photography/TV Production, a cake-cutting ceremony was held here on 21st day of October, 2019 that was attended among others by Consul General of France Monsieur Didier TALPAIN and Director of Alliance Française Monsieur Gilles PASCAL. Rahmatullah Khan is teaching Photography for the last 30 years at various institutions including PACC, SZABIST, CBM, Bahria University, Karachi University, and Greenwich University.
Students’ Photo Expo at French Centre (Text and Video)
KARACHI: Venue was the Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre) de Karachi (AFK) where photography students of the 33rd Batch displayed their works at graduation ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion Professor Rahmatullah Khan informed that pupils were not only given indoor lectures but were also taken out on Sundays in order to enable them to focus on various themes. He told that most of the students were already in the profession who wanted to further ameliorate their expertise.
Rahmatullah said that with the expansion of trade and business activities the opportunities for photographers were also expanding. One can specialize in wedding, sports, wildlife, food (product) and fashion photography.
Sindhi Cultural Day Photo Exposition (VIDEO AND TEXT)
KARACHI: On the occasion of the Sindhi Cultural Day an Exposition of photographs titled Mute Voices (II), depicting archaeological sites of Sindh, was held at National Museum here in collaboration with Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre).
Consul General of France, Monsieur Didier TALPAIN, while commenting on the exposition, said: “This is an event with multiple faces. The first is that these are very beautiful pictures taken by the participants of Alliance Française workshop. So we are very proud of it. And another face of this event is that all these beautiful sites are to be found here in Sindh. And I am extremely interested in the …world’s oldest bath (Mohenjo-Daro) as well as this big wall (Ranikot). I knew about it because I have read about it in books. But I have never seen such beautiful pictures.
“So I think it is a nice exhibition for two reasons: First what you can see in the pictures and second it is a very nice work produced within the framework of Alliance Française. I think it is very important. In every region of the world, there are days of the culture very focused on the place, province… .People from that place, province etc have something in common and one of these things is the past. So I think it is definitively a good thing. And we should – you here in Pakistan, in Sindh, we in France and everywhere around the world – organize these kinds of events.”
Expressing his views about the Sindhi Cultural Day Photo Exposition, Monsieur Gilles Pascal Director Alliance Française de Karachi held: “Alliance Française is very pleased to be a partner of this exhibition by Mr. Rahmatullah Khan and his students, who are members of Alliance Française. For decades now Mr. Rahmatullah Khan has produced (innumerable) photographers. We are happy to be part of this cultural event depicting the history of Pakistan.”
Mute Voices –II (Pakistan’s 2nd large format exhibition by Rahmatullah Khan and his students) had been curated by the Culture, Tourism & Antiquities Department, Government of Sindh. Participating photographers include Rahmatullah Khan, Farheen Waseem, Andrian Lobo, Arsalan Ikram, Arshad Hussain, G. Raza Hotan, Khuzaima Ismail, Khuzema Taqi, Qasim Shah, Sajjad Raza, Shehbaz Hassan, Shahid Ansari, Syed Shahzad Ali Jafri, and Zeeshan Hussain.
