Chobi Mela Shunno begins in Dhaka
UNB
13th February, 2021 04:30:37
International photography festival Chobi Mela s 11th edition kicked off at DrikPath Bhaban in the capital on Friday.
Organised by Drik Picture Library and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, the special hybrid edition of the biggest photography festival in the country is being called Shunno (Zero) this year.
Marking the inauguration, an opening rally was organised on the premises of DrikPath Bhaban on Friday afternoon.
Eminent international photojournalist and founder of Drik Picture Library and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute Shahidul Alam, also Chobi Mela chief advisor, the current edition’s festival director Tanzim Wahab, and curators Sarker Protick and Nazmun Nahar Keya spoke at the inaugural ceremony of the festival.
‘Chobi Mela Shunno’ kicks off
Shahidul Alam (4-L), along with other guests, at the opening day. PHOTO: SHEIKH MEHEDI MORSHED Arts & Entertainment Desk Arts & Entertainment Desk
Organised by Drik Picture Library Ltd and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, the 2021 edition of Chobi Mela , begins today. Titled Chobi Mela Shunno , the festival started with an inaugural rally at DrikPath Bhobon in the afternoon. At the end of the rally, celebrated photographer Shahidul Alam, along with other curators inaugurated the festival with an introductory discussion on the exhibitions. As a Bangladeshi, I feel proud that in the field of photography, we are the pioneers and the rest of the world follows us, shares Shahidul Alam, Founder, Chobi Mela. When a group of people start working on something new, others are inspired to do the same.
‘Chobi Mela Shunno (0)’ begins from February 12
PHOTO: SHEIKH MEHEDI MORSHED Arts & Entertainment Desk Arts & Entertainment Desk
Celebrating their tenth anniversary, Chobi Mela will kick off their special edition this year from February 12. A press conference to announce the special edition, Chobi Mela Shunno (0) , organised keeping the ongoing pandemic in mind, was held at DrikPath Bhobon in the capital today.
Celebrated photojournalist, Drik-Pathshala trustee and Chief Advisor of Chobi Mela Shahidul Alam, Festival Director Tanzim Wahab, Curators ASM Rezaur Rahman and Sarker Protick, photographer Taslima Akhter Lima and guest curator Najmun Nahar Keya were present at the event.
Raising essential questions about its own purpose, the festival plans to reinvent itself this year by employing more digital content and multidisciplinary practices, integrating physical and virtual arrangements.
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Bharti Kher, ‘Intermediaries’, 2019–20 (installation view, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka). Courtesy the artist; Nature Morte, New Delhi; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; and Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai
It’s been a long time since the biennial Dhaka Art Summit took place in February this year. In more ways than one. The fact that it was titled Seismic Movements, a play on the notion of the summit as being something geological as much as social and political (or ‘how the world is moving and how we move in the world’, as the summit’s chief curator, Diana Campbell Betancourt, put it in her introduction in the catalogue – a theme that seemed to be summed up by Bharti Kher’s