Bashir Ahmed Sujan's ‘Stand Up Dhaka' opens today
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- 13 May 2022
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Bashir Ahmed Sujan's solo panoramic photography exhibition "Darao Dhaka" (Stand Up Dhaka) begins today at La Gallerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Dhanmondi. A book of the same name was also launched at the event.
Khondoker Mostafizur Rahman, Director General, Bangladesh National Museum graced the inaugural ceremony as the chief guest. Eminent photographer Nasir Ali Mamun was also present at the event as the special guest. Francois Grosjean, Director, Alliance Française de Dhaka, and architect Nurur Rahman Khan attended the event as the guest of honour.
"Stand Up Dhaka" is Bangladesh's first-ever vertical panoramic exhibition. It showcases the living chaos experienced by city dwellers. The images have been presented in such a way that it resembles the cityscapes of one of the biggest and busiest metropolises in the world, Dhaka.
Photographer Bashir Ahmed Sujan has been working on this project for almost 15 years now.
"I have worked with a Hasselblad XPan, a manual panoramic film camera, to capture the diversities of city life through my lens,' said the photographer who processes his photographs manually and even converts them into digital formats himself. "It is not easy working to capture a vertical panoramic shot as the framing needs to be set perfectly."
This exhibition has been curated by Amirul Rajiv. He emphasised on how various photos shot at different times coincides with each other in paired frames. Read More...
