Just Another Photo Festival

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Just Another Photo Festival is an Indian photography festival, co-founded by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke in 2015. [1] [2] It aims to democratise access to visual media. [3] The festival is not always held in the same location: 2015 in Delhi, [4] [5] 2016 in Varanasi, [6] 2017 in Kolkata, [7] and 2018 was scheduled to be held in Kolkata. [8]

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