I met Shahidul just over 20 years ago, when Chobi Mela was just a twinkle in his Bangladeshi eye. It was another 7 years before it was to become the…
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When Shahidul invited me to exhibit some of my work at the festival I started by browsing and sifting through my past work to see what would fit best for…
The piles of photos I made for this project were taken under many different circumstances. I started photographing China because I was an architect and I received a fellowship to…
The sign on the whiteboard said “Buy chips”. I couldn’t quite work out why this was so significant in the task list for the festival. Our Slovenian volunteer Barbara explained.…
Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures that Drik has initiated. The first Chobi Mela – International Festival of Photography was…
Until March 1st, Brest welcomes the 9th edition of the Pluie d’Images festival. With not less than 30 exhibitions organized around the theme of Transit, five professional photographers will be…
This is the coldest winter in Bangladesh since 1971. At The Chobi Mela Buriganga party, most are shrouded in blankets,and wander around the deck with an early morning coffee in…
Coney Island´s American dream of technologically engineered leisure and spectacle looks slightly forlorn through Peter Granser´s lens, which registers a mix of sweet smiles and emptiness, dry humor and melancholy…
A small village in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Gulmarg is located about fifty kilometers from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and twenty kilometers from…