Recently I receive good news for all of our Bangladeshi nationality. Our legendary and master photographers of Bangladesh Rashid Talukder have won the 2010 Pioneer Photographer Award in the All Roads Photography program.

The All Roads Film Project is a National Geographic program dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers from around the world to showcase their works to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader, global audience.

Drik Picture Library is to announce their press release and also announce that this is the first time a Bangladeshi photographer wins this world-renowned award.

Among his remarkable works are the images documenting Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. For several decades, he has documented various aspects of Bangladeshi life with his camera, and his images will remain as an important visual archive of the events and happenings in both pre and post war Bangladesh.

At least 30 people including 10 policemen were injured in a clash on Wednesday morning with readymade garment workers at Mirpur and Shewrapara in Dhaka. More than 10,000 protesting garment factory workers blocked main roads in the Mirpur the latest in a string of protests over low wages and poor conditions. Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse the workers, who sew clothes for some of the top names in Western retail, after they blocked a major intersection in the north of the city.

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

A special court, created to hold the trial of BDR Pilkhana mutiny, in June 20 Sunday morning started hearing on charge framing against 668 accused of 24 Rifle Battalion at Pilkhana BDR Headquarters.