A photo journal and some ramblings…
Posted in Amman Rashid, Artist, Exhibition, art on Mar 27th, 2010
“AADI” hand-crafted ornaments and jewelry by artist designer Amman Rashid from Bangladesh. click for larger view Amman uses copper, brass, silver, beads, semiprecious stones, old/antique bits, old coins, seeds, shells, jute, string, rope…. to create these unique pieces. His solo exhibition opened today at the Heritage Restaurant in Gulshan Dhaka. A couple of his close [...]
Posted in AISD, Amani, Artist, Ashit, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Hindu, Mannat, Music, Ujwala Prabhu, art, ceremony on Jan 30th, 2009
Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D… Â Â Â Â ….then to view an exhibition by 11 artists [which includes a couple of friends: Ujwalaand Ashit] who have put up their prints for all to view after a Print Making workshop – the exhibition is called “Mechanical Fantasy” at Britto… Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Exhibition, Gallery, Photography, Portrait, Samiul Mohsanin on Nov 25th, 2008
A multi photographers bird-photography exhibition - I went to view Samiul Mohsanin’s photos today. A treat! Samiul is a student of Jahangirnagar University, extremely knowledgable about the habitat and birds, and has hosted us and been our guide on a previous birding visit. Samiul Mohsanin: The exhibition is being held at birder and naturalist Enam Ul Haque’s home [...]
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, Exhibition, Gallery, India, Meera Dayal, New Delhi, Pierre Hannoyer, art on Nov 6th, 2008
An art exhibition of drawings and paintings by Meera Dayal and Pierre ‘Boris’ Hannoyer, at India Habitat Center New Delhi India from 4th to 9th December 2008. A must see!
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, Bangkok, Buddhism, Exhibition, Sculptor, Thailand, art, talent on Jul 13th, 2008
Did two visits to “Passion of Thai Modern Art” – an art exhibition at Siam Paragon with 81 art pieces from KASIKORNBANK’s contemporary collection and another 127 sculptures and 93 paintings from the Bangkok Sculpture Center’s collection displayed over 4 floors of space. The mix of Buddhism and Buddhist influences in the Modern Art of Thailand [...]
Posted in Bangkok, Exhibition, Film, Jyoti, Thailand, Yann Arthus-Bertrand on Jul 3rd, 2008
The outdoor photo exhibition of “EARTH FROM ABOVE” photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on display at ZEN Department Store Bangkok is a treat to view. We spent the early part of the evening looking at these amazing and awe-inspiring photographs. Here’s Jyoti looking at the exhibit, and Jyoti & Mannat walking on the Map of the [...]
Posted in Artist, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Exhibition, Photography, Rokeya Sultana, art on Jun 4th, 2008
 36 of my photographs displayed at “In Search of Beautiful Impressions” an exhibition at Bengal Gallery from 2nd to 4th June 2008 – of prints from the Printmaking Workshop which was held at the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka University from 18th to 24th May 2008. The facade of the Gallery is an enormous wood-carved [...]
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