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From Bangladesh to France

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Through some series of strange events, instead of going back to Bangladesh for a another full year as planned, Catie and I have ended up living in Lyon, France for the next three months. Rather than try to explain this drastic change in our locale, I am just going to push forward and say that while I am very sad to not be returning to South Asia, France is unsurprisingly beautiful and so far I am loving it here. Catie and I have been to France before, but this is our first time in Lyon.

Photos taken in Lyon, France on September 4, 2010.

Tags: birds, black and white, catie, color, dan, france, lyon, night, photos, photos by catie, photos by dan, pigeons, streets
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Victory Day parade

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

In honor of Victory Day, the students of AUW held a parade in the neighborhood around campus. Armed with signs, banners, and a great deal of red and green clothes and face paint, they marched out the driveway onto M.M. Ali Road and then made their away around the entire extended block (actually a triangle), singing and chanting the entire way. Unsurprisingly, the large group of vibrant vocal young women garnered a great deal of interest from the local residents, most of which stopped whatever they were doing as the procession passed, and some of which even got up and started to follow along the sides (taking as many camera phone pictures and videos as they possibly could along the way).

Photo taken in Chittagong, Bangladesh on December 16, 2009.

After the students (and several participating staff and teachers) returned to campus, they continued to celebrate in the AUW driveway for quite a while. They sang songs, recited poetry, and took many pictures to remember the joyous event. The excess of color, noise, and positive energy flowing out of the huge group was a great symbol of the massive potential contained in such a passionate female student body that the university is working to help develop and enable to flourish. I promise I am not getting paid to write that questionably run-on sentence! It is just undeniably inspiring to see the power of AUW students in motion, especially in mass.

Photos taken in Chittagong, Bangladesh on December 16, 2009.

Tags: auw, bangladesh, celebration, chittagong, color, holiday, locals, parade, photos, photos by dan, streets, students, women
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The type of things I like to look at

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

December 16 was Victory Day in Bangladesh, which is a pretty huge deal. It celebrates the same day in 1971 on which the Pakistani army surrendered, finally granting Bangladesh their hard fought independence. AUW students put on a huge parade around our neighborhood, but I’m leaving photos of that to another post. After the parade, I spent some time with my camera meandering around the neighborhood. I didn’t think it possible, but I was actually even more popular with Bangladeshis that day than usual, due no doubt to my Bengali face paint that one of the students had been nice enough to do for me in the morning.

Photo taken in Chittagong, Bangladesh on December 16, 2009.

There wasn’t anything especially spectacular going on outside, but (as is always the case in Bangladesh) there was plenty to see, begging to be made into images. I suppose the title of this post could serve as a (rather lame) subtitle for my entire blog… I’ve just noticed that while I was in South Asia, I predominantly took a large number of just a few types of photos, and I think the sampling in this post is a rather representative slice. I like Bangladeshi men who quietly revel in giving the camera solid inexpressive faces, and I like kids who ask for pictures and then carry on the tradition by imitating those men. I like people at work. I like dogs, and shadows, and I love splashes of bright color.

Photos taken in Chittagong, Bangladesh on December 16, 2009.

Tags: animals, bangladesh, chittagong, cng, dogs, goats, holiday, kids, locals, photos, photos by dan, shadows, streets
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Children of Chittagong, and more

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Near the beginning of December, right after the big four day AUW special visitor event that I photographed (which I think for now I’ll just let slip into general unmentioned obscurity), I had the opportunity to once again go out into Chittagong with Mow (the student who took me to some of the slums and other interesting locations around the city). She had the goal of talking to some child laborers, and also revisiting the refugee camp that we had been to once before. We did both, and combined with a short walk I took afterwards around my immediate neighborhood, it all made for an interesting and colorful day. I think I’ll leave it at that for now and let my images do most of the talking.

Photos taken in Chittagong, Bangladesh on December 6, 2009.

Tags: animals, bangladesh, bengali colors, birds, bricks, chittagong, color, crows, dogs, green, kids, labor, locals, orange, photos, photos by dan, refugee camp, slums
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A day on the beach

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

I think for now, I’m just going to gloss over the fact that I’m actually currently back in New York City, and that it’s been months since I’ve touched this blog or even really thought (or wanted to think) about photography. While Catie and I decide this week whether we’re planning to go back to Bangladesh for another year, I’m going to try to reconnect with some of the lost days and images about which I never posted.

Last November, I ventured out one weekend with Catie and Denise to Patenga Beach just outside Chittagong. It was a colorful place with more tacky “beach souvenir” shops (for lack of a better descriptor) than you could shake a stick at. There was also no shortage of men offering boat rides to Cox’s Bazar, ponies (and four wheelers) available for rides along the water’s edge, and various ice cream, cotton candy, and rainbow whirlygig vendors. I don’t know if I’d call the visit exactly relaxing, and I wouldn’t really ever consider swimming in the ocean there, but it was nice to get a change of scene from the city and enjoy the sea breeze.

Patenga Beach, Bangladesh (Nov 30, 2009)

Photo taken at Patenga Beach, Bangladesh on November 30, 2009.

The highlight of the beach for me was definitely the loud mysterious cylindrical wooden structure topped with colored parachute tent ceiling, but I’ll leave that particular reveal up to the sequence of photos.