Homage to Bangladesh : a memoir of a time and a place
Grey, Rupert2023
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Bangladesh has been shunned by tourists from the moment it was created in 1971. Henry Kissinger described it as a basketcase. Poverty and humanitarian disasters defined Bangladesh in the ensuing decades. When Rupert Grey arrived in Dhaka in 1992, a sign announced that arrivals were 'Welcome to Bangladesh before the tourists get here'. They still haven't. Grey first came to Bangladesh as a London lawyer armed with three FM2 cameras. Many journeys and 30 years later he is a photographer armed with a useful legal background. The catalysts were Chobi Mela, the festival of photography, and its founder Shahidul Alam, an acclaimed photographer, human rights activist and Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2018. This book charts Grey's love affair with Bangladesh, including an epic transcontinental journey through India to Chobi Mela in a vintage Rolls-Royce.
Main title:
Homage to Bangladesh : a memoir of a time and a place / Rupert Grey.
Author:
Grey, Rupert, author
Imprint:
London : Unicorn, 2023.
Collation:
128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9781911397397 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
915.492
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2615260
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