BALU River trip 1st May
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Niraj, Ramesh, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, boat, river on May 2nd, 2009
A farewell to friends, boat trip down the Balu River at sunset….. Â Â Â Â Â
A photo journal and some ramblings…
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Niraj, Ramesh, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, boat, river on May 2nd, 2009
A farewell to friends, boat trip down the Balu River at sunset….. Â Â Â Â Â
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Smita Srivastava, art on Jan 30th, 2009
Art by Smita Srivastava at a joint India-Bangladesh exhibition at the Chitrak Art Gallery in Dhanmondi Dhaka in January 2009. Some nice new pieces of work! Â Here is a detail from this painting – I love the “landscape-like” feel… Â Great exhibition, enjoyed viewing all the artwork from all 11 artists who participated.
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Strobist, Ujwala Prabhu, art, school, street photography on Nov 14th, 2008
Children from USTAV School Dhaka visit Radius Gallery to view the “Jhaal Muri” exhibition, and they all seem to have had a wonderful time. We asked them which pictures were their favourites – very diplomatically they said “ALL”! Apparently they then all sat on the floor and recited poetry and did a few dances, I [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rickshaw, street photography on Nov 9th, 2008
Jhaal Muri artwork on diaplay at Radius Center gallery, the exhibition opened on 8th November. Here is a catalog of the work by the artists, Kuhu, Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala. This is an incomplete listing, more to be added as soon as I get back to Dhaka and can photograph / upload the rest. KUHU [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Kuhu, Photography, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, street photography on Nov 7th, 2008
The Hanging…. As terrible as that sounds, it is not that terrible at all! Except that it did take the mickey out of us getting the sequencing, spacing and positioning the way we wanted it to be. No compromizes. The artwork was hung and taken down 3 times before we got the right look we [...]
Posted in Artist, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Museum, Rokeya Sultana, Shilpakala Academy, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rain on Oct 24th, 2008
A lovely drizzly holiday day… just perfect for a drive out to the Institute of Fine Arts after a couple of drinks and a spicy hot South Indian lunch! Â …and then to enjoy the artwork displayed at one of the 3 venues [Shilpakala Academy] of the 13th Asian Arts Biennial being held at Dhaka. [...]
Posted in 3, Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Karwan Bazar, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Radius Centre, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art, rickshaw, street photography on Oct 22nd, 2008
An Invitation to the exhibition ‘Jhaal Muri’ An Art & Photography Exhibition on Bangladesh Street Culture by Rokeya ~ Kuhu ~ Smita ~ Ujwala ~ Anil. 8th November 2008 at 7:00 PM Bay’s Galleria 5th Floor 57 Gulshan Avenue Dhaka Bangladesh His Excellency Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, will inaugurate [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Kanak Chakma, Nirmalendu Das, Photography, Portrait, Rokeya Sultana, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, WIP, art, ceremony, talent on Jun 1st, 2008
Artist friend Rokeya Sultana [she is a Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts as well] asked me to photograph the 7 day Printmaking Workshop proceedings at the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka University organized by The Bengal Foundation during 18th to 24th May 2008. Visiting Professors Nirmalendu Das and Pinaki Barua of Vishwa Bharati headed the the [...]
Posted in Artist, Dhaka, Rokeya Sultana, Shantiniketan, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, art on May 20th, 2008
May 18th 2008. A day spent [blissfully] watching [and photographing] Master print-makers conduct a workshop at the Institute of Fine Arts at Dhaka University on Sunday May 18th, by kind invitation of Rokaya Sultana. The workshop will continue through May 22nd 24th. Other artists will join in, and the final prints from the Masters and [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Book, D2Hs, Fareha Zeba, ISSUU, Jamal Ahmed, Paul Butzi, Photography, Portrait, Rokeya Sultana, Saidul Haque Juise, Smita Srivastava, SoFoBoMo, Ujwala Prabhu, published on May 15th, 2008
“A Month 6 Artists and a Book” SoFoBoMo completed today. Its done! The intent was to photograph 6 artists [Saidul Haque Juise, Fareha Zeba, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, Rokeya Sultana, Jamal Ahmed] at work, with the least amount of “set-up”. Some people are less conscious of the camera than others, so I had to use [...]