Tag Archive 'Fareha Zeba'

Sensory overload!

Works by around 300 Bangladeshi artists in one place at one time…… it was just fantastic but a complete overload for the brain trying to absorb so much art at one time. Need to go back to spend time appreciating selected pieces Artist Shahabuddin Ahmed talking and gesturing at the inaugural ceremony of the Dhaka [...]

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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 - [...]

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SoFoBoMo day 6 – a bit of expansion. I’d started out the SoFoBoMo project creating a profile of just 2 Bangladeshi artists – Zeba & Juise.  I’m now expanding it to include a few other artists as well. Rokeya Sultana, a Bangladeshi artist; and 2 an Indian artists living in Bangladesh: Ujwala Prabhu and  Smita Srivastava, all [...]

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SoFoBoMoSTART! I’ve been procrastinatingbut finally have begun photographing for the SoFoBoMo project. I’ll be photographing 2 Bangladeshi artists, Fareha Zeba who is a painter and her husband Saidul Haque Juise a paper sculptor and mask/puppet maker. I spent the afternoon at their home studio, talking over endless cigarettes cups of black tea and chilled beer…. [...]

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