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Posted in art, Artist, Fareha Zeba, Sonargaon on Dec 3rd, 2010
Friend Zeba had called one evening to say that she would be working with a group of artists / photographers / videographers [Mithu Sen & Samit Das - India, Iqra Tanveer Toor – Pakistan, Janananda Laksiri - Sri Lanka, Hu XiaoXiao - China, Paolo W. Tamburella - Italy, Amir Mobed - Iran, Allioum Moussa - [...]
Posted in Ameheh Ispahahi, art, Artist, Cathy Stevulak, Leonard Hill, Surayia Rahman on Nov 28th, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Posted in art, Artist, Bangladesh, Portrait, Saidul Haque Juise, Sculptor on Nov 10th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Embroidery, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Jun 2nd, 2010
…is the artist’s exceptional talent. Surayia Rahman tapestry “The Polo Players” Click for a large view. and behind every Surayia tapestry “another story unfolds“. Click for a large view. Once the image loads, click in the center again to magnify. While photographing The Polo Players today I happened to stack the tapestry back-to-font to prevent [...]
Posted in art, Artist, Surayia Rahman on Jun 1st, 2010
A friend who has a very special collection of Surayia’s artwork gave me the opportunity to photograph a Surayia Rahman painting and several of her exquisite kantha tapestries. The crisscross lines in the painting are typical of Surayia’s work. Click for large view Their cat was a bit wary of me, but I was able to [...]