When it comes to Dhaka, most of the time we get to hear how overpopulated the city is, or how bad the living conditions are there. Before photographing streets I used to think like that too. But once I started exploring the streets in Dhaka, especially in the old town,…
Myanmar Army’s campaign of killing, rape, and arson in Rakhine, which has driven more than half a million Rohingya out of the country since late August. The UN is calling it the fastest displacement of people since the Rwanda genocide (1994). The influx of Rohingya refugees from northern parts of…
Every year thousands of Hindu devotees gather in front of Shri Shri Lokenath Brahmachari Ashram temple for the Kartik Brati or Rakher Upobash religious festival in Barodi, Naryangonj, Bangladesh. During this religious festival, which is also known as Kartik Brati, Hindus fast and offer prayers by lighting oil lamps and…
Mid-March 2020 – The world was already in a strange battle with the Novel Coronavirus and it has just reached our backyard in Dhaka. We were asked to stay home, work from home and live a life in the safety and seclusion of indoors. Our life surely needed the safety…
I was born in Narayanganj District of Bangladesh in 1977. I grew up in a middle-class family in Dhaka City. Being a member of a middle-class family, I have received different expressions of joy and sorrows of life. Different moments of my surroundings triggered my passion. I love to capture…
Prologue: Imagine your present without the memories of your ancestors or a vague family tree! A world without heritage is exactly something such! How does it feel seeing the wonders of the world’s ancient heritage getting extinct or destroyed! In this time of globalization, countries are racing towards rapid development…
Rohingya peoples fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh as they are not safe in Myanmar. According to a UNICEF report, they were almost 7,50,000. Most of them walked three to six days, barefoot over mountains and across rivers. Bangladeshi people’s received them cordially, gave them food, clothes, and land. Though they…
While clicking lifestyle photos I found workers who work in a brick factory, they lead a very unique life than the others. They have to lead a very unhealthy and risky life. Brick is an essential element of buildings. This story is about the lives of the workers in brick…
Hello, My name is Sk Iftekhar Ahsan and I am from Bangladesh, by profession I am a textile engineer and by passion I am a self-taught landscape photographer. I’ve started taking photos from 2013 and used to take photos of whatever I can- macro, landscape, wildlife, etc. Slowly I began…
There is a say that Dhaka never sleeps. Dhaka, The busiest city of the Country. The hawkers of this city also lead a busy life like this city. Their life started when the sun started to shine like every day. The main hotspots of their selling are crowded places like…
I am Sohel Ahmed from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have completed my Engineering from AUST and currently pursuing MBA from DU. Photography first captured my imagination when I was in my undergrad. The first camera I ever bought was mainly for traveling purpose, but I started to grow more interest in…
During clicking people and their life, I found Public Transportation terminals as the most crowded place in a city. And I tried to click people coming from different places from different cultures in a railway station or Bus terminal and plan for different destinations to go. They come from different…
Kazi Mushfiq Hossain is one of the prominent young photographers in Bangladesh. He is the Founder & Core Photographer of the esteemed company “Reels & Stories”. Mushfiq graduated in Computer Science & Engineering in 2016 but, started to develop his passion for photography in early student age. He bought his…
Light is very important for photography, I think the important thing to remember is that all of the “rules” that apply to other genres of photography also apply to shoot on the street: The right subject matters. The right moment matters. The right background matters. The right light matters. The…
Historical facts: When I think of Kolkata first thing strikes me that it’s history. Once upon a time, Kolkata was the window of the world to the Indian subcontinent. First Armenian then Portages, Dutch and then British came to this city and entangled deliberately with this city for business, trade,…
Nearly three thousand kilometers of railroad tracks crisscross the delta lowlands of Bangladesh, connecting the capital, Dhaka with Chittagong to the southeast and Calcutta to the southwest. The system was built largely by the British and began operations in 1862, Bangladeshi rolling stock now carries more than forty million passengers…