'capturing bangladesh' opens Thursday

A photo exhibition styled 'capturing bangladesh' to mark the eighth anniversary of bdnews24.com will be open on Thursday evening.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 23 Oct 2014, 08:13 AM
Updated : 23 Oct 2014, 02:52 PM

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will inaugurate the exhibition at 6pm. He will also unveil the cover of 'Anandapath', a 550-page special publication to mark the anniversary.

The photo exhibition will showcase a selection of moving images from around the country between Oct 23 and 27 at the Radius Art Gallery, housed at the Bay's Galleria in Dhaka's Gulshan.

It will feature powerfully nuanced photographs by eight photojournalists capturing compelling events, happenstance moments and monumental occurrences.

The event will also see the launching of click.bdnews24.com, an online portal dedicated to photography.

Bangladesh's first professional female photographer Syeda Khanam, along with celebrated lensman Anwar Hossain, will launch the portal.

"The exhibition is an effort to display the work we have tried to do in photojournalism as an Internet newspaper in the past eight years. From a historical point of view, it offers a glimpse of the times," said bdnews24.com's Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of pre-eminent historian AF Salahuddin Ahmed, who was to open the show, a bdnews24.com official said. But he had passed away just four days before the event.

The academic and columnist had always been an integral part of bdnews24.com's anniversary celebrations during the previous years. "Invitation cards with his name on it had already been sent out," the official said.

The 77-year old photographer Syeda Khanam is the younger sister of Salahuddin Ahmed’s wife. A corner of the exhibition will be dedicated to the late historian, where photographs on him will be displayed, said Aninda Rahman, the exhibition curator.

The exhibition will display 70 photographs published on bdnews24.com, which carry historical and social significance, selected from the tens of thousands captured by the photojournalists. “On top of that, digital displays will exhibit almost a thousand photographs," said Aninda Rahman.

The exhibition will be open for all from 10am to 8pm until Oct 27.

"It's not that it’s all about news photography. Some of the photos had important news elements when captured, but now people may not remember them," said click.bdnews24.com Editor Hasan Bipul.