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Professor Salahuddin Ahmed stays alive in celebrations
Images of National Professor AF Salahuddin Ahmed occupied a corner in bdnews24.com's photo exhibition which he was supposed to inaugurate.
Published : 23 Oct 2014, 09:59 PM
Updated : 24 Oct 2014, 02:44 PM
That moved his sister-in-law and Bangladesh's first professional female photographer Sayeda Khanam to tears.
The exhibition at Dhaka's Bays Gallery is taking place to celebrate the eighth anniversary of bdnews24.com, Bangladesh's first internet newspaper.
Professor Salahuddin died last Sunday at the age of 93, forcing bdnews24.com to change plans.
The exhibition titled ‘Capturing Bangladesh' was inaugurated by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
On the occasion, bdnews24.com’s special photo website click.bdnews24.com was inaugurated by Khanam.
As a mark of respect to the renowned historian and humanist, several of his pictures were put up in a corner in the exhibition called ‘AF Salahuddin Ahmed Corner’.
A minute’s silence was observed at the beginning of the exhibition in a mark of respect to his memory.
Editor-in-Chief of bdnews24.com Toufique Imrose Khalidi said they wanted to remember the colourful life of the man who was “so clean, so committed to his work”, not to grieve him.
While visiting that corner, 77-year old Sayeda Khanam could not hold back her tears seeing the pictures of Salahuddin Ahmed’s family and professional life that she herself had taken.
“I took these photographs,” she exuded seeing those frames.
She also reminisced about her brother-in-law on the sidelines of the exhibition.
“He was our guardian. He used to adore us a lot. Whenever he and my elder sister went abroad, he used to bring a good camera for me.”
Recalling the experience of photography during her early days she said, “After a photo of a girl taking bath, which I had clicked, appeared in Begum newspaper during Pakistan regime, people of the locality besieged our house. Salahuddin pacified them.”
Sayeda Khanam also attributed her success as a professional photographer to Professor Salahuddin.
“In 2001 an exhibition of my works on Satyajit Ray was held at Nandan in Kolkata. At that time he had helped me a lot. Without him that exhibition would not have been possible,” she recalled.
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