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Damascus, SANA – Thirty trainees finished a photography course that was recently conducted by Media Qualification Institute in Damascus.
The course took ten days and was supervised by photographer Mahmoud Salem, head of “Friends of Camera Club”.
The 30 trainees, who included people working for media outlets and journalism, law, economy and pharmacy students as well as amateur photographers, conducted field tours to a number of sites and places in Damascus, including the National Museum and the Old City.
On those tours, the trainees took photos depicting daily life, in addition to photos that can be used for documentation.
The course included lectures on photography and types of cameras and focused on boosting the visual culture of the photographers, which basically depends on self-efforts, and educating them on photography associations and clubs on the local, Arab and international levels, their activities and membership.
Similar photography courses have been conducted earlier in the framework of the increasingly special attention the Information Ministry gives to media and journalism in general and photography in particular since a large part of the war against Syria, still raging since 2011, has been media- focused, with images and photos particularly playing a key role in the instigation that has targeted and continues to target the country.
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