Bangladeshi Photographers

BP regularly organizes photo outings (popularly known as photowalks), workshops, exhibitions and knowledge sharing sessions.

Photographers Mr. David Barikder and Mr. GMB Akash along with photojournalist Mr. Kawser Mahmud were special guests in the opening ceremony.

The challenge presented around ninety frames which consisted of competing shots and works from prominent photographers of Bangladesh.

‘Photowalk’ is a popular term for the event where photographers in groups go to different places to capture variegated aspects of life.

For example, in January 2008, an exhibition was organized in Russian Cultural Center to support the victims of Cyclone Sidr in remote parts of the country.

In February, the same exhibition was continued in Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University to aid in the treatment of poet Samudra Gupta.

This was a collaborative venture with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which consisted of two exhibitions of the same set of photographs in both Bangladesh and USA.

[8][9][10][11] The exhibition presented a distinct yet broad picture of globalization as a phenomenon influencing the local cultures and lifestyles of two completely different countries.