The exhibition presents a rare visual chronicle of one of Bangladesh’s greatest treasures, Sultan, spanning from his reclusive days in his village home in Machimdia, Narail, to his later years. Photographs, letters—many never previously seen—allow viewers to step quietly into the private world of a man who preferred to live through his paintings, labour, imagination, and solitude.
“Photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.” — Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), p. 3.
Bengal Shilpalay inaugurated “Shotoborshe Sultan” yesterday, a solo photography exhibition by Nasir Ali Mamun, held as a tribute to legendary Bangladeshi artist SM Sultan on his birth centenary.
Nasir Ali Mamun is a prominent portrait photographer whose pictures revolve around important personalities and celebrities of this country.
It's a great way to pay tribute to legendary litterateur-filmmaker Humayun Ahmed by putting together a photo album titled “Ananta Jibon Jodi” featuring over a hundred rare images of various moods and moments of the legend.
