Daily Life @ 08 March, 2015 A young muslim women walk on the street and than use her mobile phone to talk somebody, today’s celebrating International Woman’s Day with theme “Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Picture it” photo by Monirul Alam @meghmonir
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It’s not a torture cell ! But it’s looks like a torture cell, It’s all about therapeutic exercise, during my visit at the National Medical Colleague Hospital, I observed it, patient taken this kind of treatment. I am also under treatment its call Short Wave Diathermy, treatment for my frozen shoulder @ 04 March 2015 © Monirul Alam
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I am really happy to join today’s Chobi Mela VII rally during the rally I meet with my old and new friends. Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures where photographers examine the dramatic shifts in images production. The Festival director SHAHIDUL ALAM, RUPART GREY (Photographer and Lawyer) and his family member, Pathshala former and present student’s other’s photographer also join the colorful rally. The rally is started form the Bangladesh National Museum.
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That morning, ( 27 July,2012) when I get up form sleep I receive an interesting news, In my house found a Brahminy Blind Snake local name Dumuka Shap ! To me it’s really surprising news!
I thought how can it’s possible in our resident there is no garden (except a few flower pot on the rooftop), pond, even any agriculture activities or green filed. That area’s where I live it is completely a concrete of Jangle!
My wife Bubli said, last night when she takes a shahari (during the fasting month of Ramadan) with my other family members they saw that snake walk in our dining room, while they are afraid after that they captured and put on the plastic battle.
My younger sister name Nazma Akther who is an assistant professor of Zoology Govt. Eden College Dhaka she identified, and said according to the Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, volume 25, Ramphotyphlops braminus (Daudin 1803) is a harmless blind snake ( local name Dumuka Shap, Kana Shap, Kecho Shap) species is very common in Africa and Asia. Usually occur in urban and agricultural areas. These snakes are very friendly with farmer. The snake’s length is around 6-17 cm. The adult snakes shiny silver grey, pale, dark or reddish-brown underneath with a paler snout.
These snake live underground in ant and termite nests. They are also found under logs, moist leaves and humus in wet forest, dry jungle and even city gardens. It is also found at the leaf bases of banana plants. The distribution and survival of this group of snakes directly reflect soli and temperature. Their diet consists of the larvae, eggs and pupae of ants and termites.
I am more interested about that snake and taken pictures and measuring its length around 10cm. It is still alive and agitates on the bottle.
Finally we assume how it’s came to our house, Yes it came to our house from the fruit market, where my elder brother buy some pineapple, somehow that snakes’ hide on the pineapple’s leaf. In our dining room two pineapples keep on the floor, maybe on the night time that snake go out from the pineapple and left on the floor and agitate!
Do you think or curious what about the last position of that snake? Yes that snake is keeps my sister college and preserve it for research. I think it’s really a different experience to us.
Moniurl Alam/28 July 2012 Dhaka
South Asian bigest evnt of the Chobi MelaVI – International Festival of Photography will be held from 21 January to 3 February, 2011 in Dhaka Bangladesh and will present the work of creative artists participating from 30 countries. Please see all details . . .
“All that we value, that we strive to uphold, all that gives us strength, has been made of dreams”
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 28 December, 2010: The Chobi Mela VI – International Festival of Photography will be held from 21 January to 3 February, 2011 in Dhaka Bangladesh and will present the work of creative artists participating from 30 countries. The festival with its theme “Dreams” is designed to be a birthplace of ideas, and a crossover meeting point for many artists. It will open a portal to a mystical world of images showcasing new trends in photography and bringing to the fore issues of our troubled world.
The unique festival will be launched on the 21 January, 2011 at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Parallel exhibitions will be held at Alliance Francaise, The Asiatic Gallery of Fine Arts, The British Council, Drik Gallery, The Goethe-Institut and the Lichultala at Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University. In congruence with the exhibitions there will be 8 workshops, 2 portfolio reviews and a week-long discussions, seminars and lectures at Goethe-Institut Auditorium that will initiate debates and discussions on issues central to contemporary photographic practice.
The main attraction on the 22 January at Goethe-Institut will be a video conference with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court. In this position, his mandate is to select and trigger investigations and prosecutions of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The first Chobi Mela festival (Dec.1999-January 2000) was launched by Drik and Pathshala South Asian Media Academy to fill the need for a forum for sharing work and ideas, a platform for debate that was missing on this side of the globe. This inaugural festival focused on ‘Differences’ in the world we live in and in a sense was prophetic. The twin towers disaster followed and buried beneath the rubble the freedoms that the world has since lost. “In a world ravaged by war, to turn to ‘Dreams’ after ‘Differences’, ‘Exclusion’, ‘Resistance’, ‘Boundaries’ and ‘Freedom’ is to return to what holds us together in the face of all our obstacles, the focus of all our longings. In a vastly unequal world, it is our insistence on justice and our ability to ride the waves, which still keeps us dreaming,” says Shahidul Alam, Festival Director and Managing Director of Drik. “I dream that Chobi Mela will play a role in re-writing the history of photography, and correcting the extremely Eurocentric version of history that is currently propagated.”
Many bodies of work that went on to become well known were first shown in Chobi Mela. Considered to be the most demographically inclusive photo festival and the resulting pollination has led to many exciting exchanges, and given rise to several new festivals in the region for which Chobi Mela has been the catalyst.
Ensuring the general public’s access is an important part of the festival and admission for the festival is free. Mobile exhibitions on rickshaw vans are now a trademark of the Chobi Mela festivals. The festival provides an opportunity not only to enjoy the outstanding work of national and international photographers but also raises important social issues critical to our existence.
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