With Cathy and Len in Dhaka – meeting people connected with Surayia Rahman, the search for all artwork and history of Surayia’s amazing life-story continues. A common friend handed over to us a treasure the other day, quite unexpectedly. A set of 5 metal engraved printing blocks that were designed by Surayia Rahman for use on their stationery [...]
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Posted in art, Artist, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Nov 21st, 2010
With Cathy and Len here in Dhaka, I have been with them visiting Surayia Rahman, The Salesian Sisters House and The Holy Cross College – and photographing all the time. This Friday during my second visit to the Salesian Sisters House in Monipuri Para, Sister Elisabeth brought out the original wax-paper scrolls hand drawn by Surayia [...]
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Posted in Artist, Surayia Rahman on Nov 16th, 2010
While visiting with Surayia yesterday with Cathy and Len, her 3 kittens were investigating and exploring my camera bag…. two of them finally curled up against the bag and had a nice sleep.
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Was looking for some old images when I came across the series of Juise that I did over several days at his home and studio in April of 2008. Have put together just a few photographs [from the 100's of Juise on file] as a profile of artist Juise. I hope that the persona of Juise [...]
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Posted in sun, sunset on Nov 4th, 2010
Went out to the balcony for some fresh air and saw this beautiful sky with the rays of the sun shooting up behind the clouds. A few minutes later the colors switched from blue to yellow orange and magenta, the sun was almost down to the horizon disappearing fast and a crow gliding past….
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