Award-Winning Photographer Leads AKDN Student Photography Workshop

Award-winning photographer Fredric Roberts is leading a week-long photography workshop for high school students in Hyderabad. The workshop has been organised jointly by the Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad and the Aga Khan Foundation, both of which are part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

The workshop allows Fredric Roberts to bring his passion for storytelling through still images to high school students in the developing world. With assistance from a faculty of world-class photographers and teachers, the workshop is training 20 students, both boys and girls, who have been selected from the Aga Khan Academy and the Aga Khan Foundation’s education programme in Hyderabad.

Over the course of the seven-day workshop, the participants are learning professional photographic techniques using a format developed by Mr. Roberts. They are taking photographs of the Aga Khan Development Network’s diverse work in Hyderabad, which includes healthcare, restoration of the historic Quli Qutb Shahi tombs, and scholastic and vocational skills training for the city’s marginalised youth. The workshop will conclude with a graduation ceremony and exhibition of the students’ best works, which will take place on Saturday, 17 October at the Aga Khan Academy.

This is the fourth photography workshop Mr. Roberts has held with AKDN, after earlier workshops in Dushanbe and Khorog, Tajikistan and Osh in Kyrgyzstan. This workshop forms part of a multi-year, multi-country partnership between Mr. Roberts and AKDN, which includes plans to have an exhibition of the photographs at the recently opened Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in May 2016, timed to coincide with the Contact Photo Festival taking place in Toronto.