“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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22nd Nov 09. Morning trip to Sonargaon village with Stein. We intended to get there well before 7am so that we could scout out a vantage point to watch and photograph the sunrise. A slight delay, but we still got there in time to watch the sky turn magenta at pre-dawn to a grey pink [...]
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Posted in Bangladesh, boat, Buriganga, Dhaka, FLICKR, Heather Pillar, Museum, Photography, Portrait, river, Sadarghat, street photography on Aug 25th, 2008
The last lot of photos from the Dhaka Scott Kelby PhotoWalk on 23rd Aug: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The winning photographs of the PhotoWalk are shown here. And congratulations to Shabbir Ferdous from Bangladesh for producing the best of the lot from Dhaka! Bangladesh participants group photo by David is here.
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Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Destruction, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Hindu, mosque, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, temple on Apr 26th, 2008
A trip to Sonargaon, around 30 KM from Dhaka city…. the ancient Capital now in ruins. Like a ghost town, the homeless living in abandoned buildings. Buildings that were probably majestic and stately at one time, now crumbling in neglect, robbed of their ornate carved doors and windows, full of rubbish and the homeless… pathetic [...]
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