Filming Equipment in Nepal | The way we were

 Filming Equipment in Nepal

Photography represents the passage of time in more ways than one. From the first grainy black and white prints to digital images, advances in camera technology change the way we see the world.

Art photography experiments with light and composition. Then there is the subject matter: what people, places, cities, neighbourhoods, landscapes used to be like. Dynasties come and go in gelatin glass negatives, and snapshots remind us that what we think is important is ephemeral.

Filming Equipment in Nepal

Nepal Remembered is an exquisitely curated and produced book and exhibition. It is a photo album that captures the history of Nepal as camera technology evolved. The timescale of the book starts after the invention of the camera in 1839, and spans the first ever photograph taken in Nepal in 1863, the pioneer father-son photographers of Kathmandu, and the pictures they took.

The Chitrakar clan have been court artists since the Malla era, and the surname itself denotes a profession that has been passed down from one generation to the next. The Chitrakars have seen, painted and photographed the Malla, Rana and Shah dynasties over the centuries.

Jang Bahadur travelled to England and France in 1850 in what was actually a spy mission to size up British military might, and decide whether it was wise going to war against the empire to restore territory lost in 1816. In the entourage was Bhaju Macha Chitrakar, whose oil on canvas portrait of himself Jang Bahadur proudly presented to Queen Victoria. That painting used to hang in Whitehall until Robin Cook removed it when he became Foreign Secretary in 2000.

Jang Bahadur was also Nepal’s first ruler to be photographed, and the studio portrait with his consort was taken either in London or Calcutta in the 1860s.

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