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- Mr. Sadanand Menon

Guest Speaker Mr. Sadanand Menon

He is a nationally reputed ‘arts editor’, popular teacher of ‘cultural journalism’, widely published photographer, arts curator and prolific writer and speaker at seminars on politics, ecology and the arts.

He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, where he conducts courses on ‘Arts & Culture Journalism’ and ‘Photojournalism’.

He is Member, Committee to restructure the National School of Drama, Delhi; Member, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla; Member, Governing Council, Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi; and Managing Trustee, SPACES, An Arts Foundation, Chennai.

A former Arts Editor with India's leading financial daily The Economic Times, he has practiced and taught critical alternatives in the media, and edited interventionist journals. He writes a weekly column in ‘Malayalam’, the leading Malayalam language periodical from the Indian Express stable, Kochi, and a fortnightly column for ‘Business Standard’.

His photographic works have been included in anthologies of the best photographic work from India and he is currently Editorial Advisor, 'Better Photography', Mumbai, where till recently, he wrote a regular monthly column, 'Burnt to the Grain'.

This year is the centenary year of the legendary French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. To commemorate this, Sadanand Menon will, in his talk entitled 'The Master of the Decisive Moment', talk about Cartier-Bresson and his contribution to the enrichment of the genre of street photography and photo-journalism.

On 14th July 2009

Posted Jul-10-2009