Well, according to Shahidul Alam who, as Bangladesh’s leading photographer, should know, what I thought was a pin hole camera is in fact not one at all. But I do still think it is pretty amazing that a camera designed in the 1840s-60s is in use on the streets of Dhaka.
I don’t think it is [...]
I’ve had an extremely busy and satisfying last few weeks – reporting on the High Court victory of Dr Humayra Abedin, the NHS doctor imprisoned by her parents in Dhaka, who, she says, drugged her and forced her to marry.
Then, the last two weeks of 2008 were taken up with the return of democracy to Bangladesh. Elections [...]
