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Bangladesh

Events, Bangladesh, Photography
Chobi Mela V
02.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Chobi Mela, one of the biggest photography festival in Asia, is back again this year. Photographers of all genres are invited to interpret the main theme of ‘Freedom’ and submissions open from 1st March to 31st May.
Shahidul Alam, festival director:
New forms of slavery form new forms of chains. Violence suffered in silence. Ancestral land […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
Andrew Biraj
11.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Dhaka-based photojournalist, Andrew Biraj, has got some interesting works up on his site. Biraj has worked on several stories in his native homeland Bangladesh, Cambodia and the United Kingdom.
State Excluded is the story of Islamic Biharis living in government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh. This series was included in Noorderlicht this year, under the Faith of […]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Cyclone
11.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The unofficial death toll is currently at over 3,000 after cyclonic storm Sidr ravaged through Bangladesh last week, according to this news article.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society is appealing for international aid (site is down).
Scoured this address through google cache:
Bangladesh Red Crescent
684-686 Bara Maghbazar, Dhaka 1217, Bangladesh.
Tel +880 (02) 933 0188 - Fax +880 […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
More from GMB Akash
10.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Akash is currently in Germany on a Hamburg Foundation/GEO Magazine scholarship for a year. He has been documenting homeless people on the streets since January this year. He was curious why the homeless exist in a country as rich as Germany.

Akash on his calling:
Once, when I took a picture of a homeless in Hamburg, I […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
Saiful Huq Omi
10.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

In 2006, Saiful Huq Omi was given the National Geographic All Roads Photography Project award for his work on the plight of political victims in his home country, Bangladesh.
On his work:

My photos prove how utterly shameless our sympathetic eyes are, how oppurtunistic and dominating are our looks! 11 families, 10 disabled men, 10 diamonds!

[all images […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
GMB Akash
10.15.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

2007 must have been a good year for Akash so far. He garnered first prize at the Gordon Parks Photography Competition for his work on child labor in Bangladesh, first place at the Asia Press Photo contest and was also listed as one of PDN’s 30 photographers to watch.
Accolades aside, his work focuses on social […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
Abir Abdullah
09.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Abir Abdullah is a Bangladeshi photojournalist who seems to be able to connect with his subjects on a very personal level. His main interests in photography are in socio-environmental and political issues. He is now working for the European Pressphoto Agency as their Bangladesh correspondent.

© Abir Abdullah - Children in Bangladesh series

© Abir Abdullah […]
Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
Munem Wasif
09.09.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Munem Wasif (b. 1983) is a documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He now works with Drik NEWS as a staff photographer.
He won an “Honorable Mention” in the 2007 All Roads Photography Program by the National Geographic Society, First Prize in the Konkurs Fotografii Prasowej, and Second Prize in the 2007 Polish BZ WBK Press […]