Kashef Chowdhury launches photo-book

Photographer-architect Kashef Chowdhury's new book of photographs “Dhaka: Memories Or Lost” was unveiled by Mayor Annisul Haq, State Minister Nasrul Hamid Bipu MP and Bengal Foundation Chair Abul Khair at a ceremony at the Nagar Bhaban of Dhaka North City Corporation in Gulshan on Saturday. The book, which is published in Switzerland, contains images taken in the '90s and early 2000s when Dhaka was experiencing unprecedented growth and change, says a press release.

The photographs were taken on film and are like sketches made in dark alleys or from rooftops, in the dead of night or drenched in monsoon. The images show a city undergoing a massive societal shift. The book could also be described as a collection of photographs full of mystery and curiosity - a carefully edited selection showing a city life remembered not in large gestures but in little moments of an indescribable beauty.

Kashef Chowdhury has seven solo exhibitions to his credit, in Dhaka and Ankara (Turkey).