“WALK THROUGH SONARGAON” For Jyoti & Mannat. My book is now available online. A collection of photographs from 4 visits to Panam Nagar / Sonargaon in Bangladesh is online at the print-on-demand publishing service Blurb. The book was fairly easy to format with their software called BookSmart. The upload of the entire book was seamless [...]
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SoFoBoMo 2010 book completed today. A great experience, though I did miss the company of a friend who was to join-in but finally could not. This, in a way, limited the extent of my photo taking – though I still do have a large collection of images to use for a [later] series on [...]
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SoFoBoMo 2010 book nearing completion. Made another visit to Panam Nagar in Sonargaon this morning… not early enough though and we got caught up in a bad traffic tangle going out which added to the delay. Early morning light was gone, harsh bright sunlight was fine in a way because most of the main street [...]
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Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Flower on Mar 16th, 2010
We’ve bought these over the years, collected a few, gifted several. Every antique shop in Dhaka used to have them, but these are getting rare [and expensive] now. Where did these come from, what is the painting style called, who were the artists who painstakingly applied their skill to these artful ceramic pieces? Would like to [...]
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Posted in Ameheh Ispahahi, art, Artist, Bangladesh, Bianca DiBiase, Cathy Stevulak, Dhaka, Embroidery, Gallery, Photography, Surayia Rahman, tapestry on Mar 4th, 2010
Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]
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READY? SET… GO!!  That’s what the t-shirts said for a “fun run” organized by a friend to raise money for a breast cancer fund. Getting almost 100 people into a group photo was a tough one though. Luckily I had a super-wide lens in the bag, and there was a staircase I could climb for [...]
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