[4] He developed an interest in photography while still at school, and by the time he reached class 8 in 1945, he started working in the darkroom.

[2] Talukdar started his career in 1962, as a press photographer with The Sangbad in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan.

[5] After working for a few years, he joined The Daily Ittefaq, where he worked for 29 years as a photojournalist and during his career he most notably shot the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 against Pakistan and the photograph of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivering his historic speech on 7 March 1971.

As he feared for his safety, many of his photographs were not published until 1993 when he was approached by The Daily Star.

Outside of Bangladesh, Horst Faas and Michel Laurent of the Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1972, which appeared in a print as "Death in Dacca".