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Indigenous Women in Bangladesh — exhibition by Bangladeshi photographer Mahmud
August 6, 2008 2:47 pm
Click here for the full size flyer.
Over 50 different indigenous societies live in Bangladesh, scattered around country. Among them, their female members are perhaps some of the people most excluded from the rest of society, in terms of education, health care and government resources. Mahmud, of MAP Photo Agency, has photographed these populations for the last decade. This exhibition of his work, co-hosted by ActionAid and the Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum brings their faces to the foreground. We encourage you to visit the exhibition and learn more about the true diversity Bangladesh holds.
Venue:
Drik Gallery
House 58, Road 15A (New),
Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tel: (880-2) 9120125, 8123412, 8112954
Dates: August 7-13, 2008
Hours: 1500-2000 every day.
Postcards & Giftcards of Bangladesh on sale
July 20, 2008 6:51 pm
Click on the image or here to see the full flyer.
Have you been stuck searching for the brighter side of Bangladesh in pictures? Search no more.
Our photography (Belinda Meggitt and Mikey Leung) is now on sale as gift cards or postcards. Special edition prints are up for grabs too—contact us. We’ll show you the beautiful, the bold and the brazen side of Bangladesh that you may have yet to see.
Best of all, 10 percent of proceeds are being donated to The Dhaka Project.
The cards are available for purchase at the following fine shopping venues:
- Jatra, 60 Kamal Ataturk Avenue, Gulshan-Banani Bridge above Aranya
- Word and Pages, 125 Gulshan Avenue, close to Gulshan 2
- Ideas Manzil, House 19, Road 79, Gulshan 2
- Mermaid Cafe, Cox’s Bazaar beachside
- Bishaud Bangla, Mehedibagh, Chittagong
For viewings or delivery by the Joybangla rickshaw:
E-mail us: joybangla [DOT] info [AT] gmail.com or use the contact form.
Highlights of the Bangladeshi Photographers Cyclone Sidr exhibition
February 1, 2008 12:38 pm
Click on the image to see more from Russell John.
The Bangladeshi Photographers group recently completed a Cyclone Sidr fundraising exhibition, which presented a mix of amateur and professional photography at the Russian Cultural Centre last week. The exhibition has now moved to another venue (details below) but for those who may not able to make it, I managed to speak with some of the photographers about some of my favourites from the show.
The BP group is unique in that many of them have come together via the internet—they are currently sharing their images in an ever increasing pool of quality photography of Bangladesh, which is freely available for all to see at Flickr. Click here to see more of the group’s pictures. You’ll find a mixed bag—some are amateurs with a a real talent, others are just out to have fun with their cameras and explore.
The above image is by self-professed “IT Guy” Russell John. You can hear the story of this image and a few other favourites by following the link below and by listening to the podcast:
Interviews with some of the members of the BP group [8:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (220)M R Hasan’s “Road Workers” photo.
Moniruzzaman’s “Creator of the Earth” photo.
Next venue’s details:
Venue: Chobir Haat (opposite of Institute of Fine Arts, Shahbag)
Time: 11 AM to 8 PM
Date: 1st February 2008 to 3rd February 2008
Cyclone Sidr Photography Exhibition Fundraiser until Jan. 31
January 29, 2008 2:18 am
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The Bangladeshi Photographers group is holding a Cyclone Sidr fundraising exhibition until January 31 at the Russian Cultural Centre in Dhanmondi.
What is most impressive about this event is not only quality of the images but by the collaboration of the photographers involved. We’ll be watching this group closely at Joybangla.info.
More of the group’s photography is available at Flickr.
Rangamati — the CHT’s most accessible destination
January 21, 2008 5:09 pm
This local villager is one of the benefactors of Green Hill’s gravity irrigation system. His village was fully outfitted with running drinking water and is one of Green Hill’s earliest success stories. Green Hill is a Rangamati-based non-government organisation supporting the development of hill tracts people. See more photos here..
Rangamati is perhaps the most-travelled destination inside the Chittagong Hill Tracts—at least by Bengali tourists, that is. The region’s interest comes from its cultural diversity: the majority of its people are not Bengali. Instead you will find people from many different ethnic tribes. In Rangamati, the majority of people are Chakma, and are perhaps the most well off of the various ethnic groups.
The region also holds both a beautiful and a ghastly story that centers around the presence of Kaptai Lake. In the early 1960s, Kaptai Dam was built to generate power for Bangladesh’s growing electricity demands. During the construction, over 100,000 indigenous people were displaced, and many of them were never recompensated. While the lake itself is quite beautiful and peaceful, today it remains a bone of contention: the government began dealing with Bangladesh’s overpopulation problems by moving people on to indigenous lands and evicting the local people around the lake.
As a result the indigenous people began an insurgency that eventually culminated in kidnappings, ransoms and murders. In 1997, a peace accord was signed, but 10 years later many of its stipulations are yet to be fulfilled. Today it is a sticky issue for the Bangladeshi government that seems to have no resolution in sight. The balance between Bengali and indigenous people is delicate, surely becoming more and more unsettled as the days wear on.
In the following podcast we talk about what’s interesting for the tourists who visit the Hill Tracts and briefly discuss that naggling question of “Is the CHT safe?”
Rangamati -- the CHT's most accessible destination [8:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (216)Volunteering in Bangladesh: A Slideshow Presentation
November 5, 2007 4:50 pmVolunteering in Bangladesh: A Slideshow Presentation by travel journalists Mikey Leung and Belinda Meggitt
7:30pm, November 8, 2007 - Travel Bug Bookstore, Vancouver
3065 West Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
***Latest: we now have over 30 registered attendees to the event.. if you’re interested in coming, please RSVP soon!
Photo by Belinda Meggitt. See more photos here.
What’s it like to volunteer in one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated countries? Not as difficult as one might like to imagine.
For Belinda Meggitt and Mikey Leung, the experience was inspiring, invigorating and life-changing. Bangladesh, a country better known for its devastating floods, intractable corruption and intense poverty, is in fact a beautiful and verdant nation rich with history and literature. For what they might lack in material possessions, Bengali people make up for with unforgettable and legendary hospitality.
On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 8, the travelling couple will present a set of their photographs from the country and talk about one of travel’s last frontiers—one that may soon be underwater because of climate change. They will also have photographs and designer handicrafts from the Desh for sale. Finally, Mikey and Belinda are also inviting members from the Greater Vancouver Bangladesh Cultural Association to attend.
All Travel Bug Bookstore slideshows and presentations are free of charge, but it is necessary to reserve seating. Please call (604)737-1122 for reservations, or send an email to info@NOSPAMtravelbugbooks.ca. (Please remove the “REMOVETHISFORSPAM” message!).
Mikey Leung and Belinda Meggitt are travel journalists based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The couple originally travelled to Bangladesh as volunteers (Mikey for Voluntary Service Overseas; Belinda for the Australian Youth Ambassadors of Development). They are currently researching a new Bradt travel guide to the country.
Click on the thumbnail to see the event flyer: 
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