Laila Plamondon sings her heart out at the IC at Dhaka on January 16th 2008…
Laila is a “local grown” Dhaka girl, graduating from AIS-Dhaka and then going on to a bachelor’s degree at Smith College. Laila was named ‘First Smith Superstar’ in 2006.
Her younger sister, Zoya, sings beautifully as well…
Talent runs high in the family starting with [their mother] painter and fashion-designer Kuhu. [* see 1/25/08 update below].
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And thanks Laila, for making the evening so special for Mannat!
1/25/08
Kuhu’s latest solo exhibition at Chitrak Gallery in Dhaka
What a great site you have! I’ve saved the pics!!!
thank you.
Love,
Laila
[...] photographing Laila Plamondon at a show recently, I deliberately overexposed a few frames to experiment with cross-processing the images in [...]
Thanks!
Your music was just fantastic, both days at the IC and at Le Saigon. Much enjoyed!
[...] A few months ago artists friends came up with with an idea to do a fun project and exhibit our collective work at a hip cafe in Dhaka. the idea was, to go out into the streets and do a series of photographs [market scenes, street-portraits...] and they would paint from these photo references. Not as copies, but interpretations in each of their vastly varied painting styles. It sounded great and a lot of fun. A few outings, and we had a large collection of images to select from. Three of the artists – Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala – featured in my SoFoBoMo book project and the fourth is Kuhu. [...]