Photograph from the book Dhaka: Memories Or Lost Keeping a city of (then) ten million moving. Rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, buses and ‘human haulers’ all vying for right of way and without mass transit systems, they too were in millions.
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Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2017. Hardcover edition of duotone images, with an essay by Prof Philip Ursprung of ETH Zürich and designed by Bruno Margreth. This collection of images date from the nineties and early two thousands, at a time when Dhaka was experiencing unprecedented growth and change. All photographs were taken on film […]
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Photograph from the book Dhaka: Memories Or Lost Is it a face? Or is it a map of the city with its rivers and tributaries flowing through it? The body of a day labourer sifting and moving sand in buckets on headload: The first step of a voracious building activity that changed the face of […]
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Photographs by Kashef 