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The Festival of Photography, Chobi Mela II,
opens in Dhaka on the 20th November. The biannual
festival featuring exhibitions, workshops,
lectures by visiting artists and multimedia
screenings by over 50 photographers from over
30 nationalities will be shown simultaneously
in the major galleries in Dhaka from the 20th
November 2002 till the 10th December. The
evening screenings will take place at the
Goethe Institut.
The
festival will be launched through the opening
of the acclaimed international touring exhibition
"Positive Lies", which has already
arrived from Sydney. It will be opened by
the Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs
Mr M Morshed Khan, and the Honourable. State
Minister for Cultural Affairs Mrs Selima Rahman,
at 10.30 AM at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The show has been shown in prestigious galleries
all over the world including the UN Building
where it was opened by the Secretary General
of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.
The show, which documents community responses
to HIV/AIDS, has so far been shown in Adelaide,
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Canberra, Cape Town,
Chaing Mai, Durban, Geneva, Johannesburg,
Kuala Lumpur, London, Melbourne, New York,
Paris, Perpignan, San Francisco and Sydney,
and is scheduled to go to Hong Kong and Tokyo
after its showing in Dhaka.
The exhibition features work by the following
outstanding photographers, Mike Abrahams,
Shahidul Alam, Gigi Cohen, Mike Goldwater,
C Moore Hardy, Fritz Hoffman, Harriet Logan,
Peter Jordan, Barry Lewis, Osamu Kikuchi,
Paul Reas, Denis Doran, Steve Pyke, Paul Lowe,
Barry Lewis, Jenny Matthews, Gideon Mendel,
Jack Picone, Christopher Pillitz, Mark Power,
Eugene Richards, Judah Passow, Dayanita Singh,
John Sturrock, Roger Hutchings and Stuart
Freedman.
Other major exhibitions featured in the festival,
include World Press Photo 2002, "India"
by Sebastiao Salgado, and "Photographs"
by Morten Krogvold. The festival had a 'soft
launch' on Sunday the 17th November through
an exhibition on Bangladesh circus by French
photographer Pierre Claquin, at the Alliance
Francaise. On the 20th, there will also be
exhibitions opening at the BPS Gallery, Bangladesh
Shishu Academy, Shilparag, Goethe Institut,
Gallery Chitrak, Bangal and Shilpangan.
Evening screenings will take place from 6.30
PM at the Goethe Institut from the 22nd November
till the 2nd December.
Further details are available from Drik Picture
Library or Pathshala, or the website www.chobimela.org
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