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Name
  
Anwar Hossain


Role
  
Photographer

Anwar Hossain (photographer) Anwar Hossain

Born
  
1948 (age 67–68)

Movies
  
Shyamol Chhaya, Bostrobalikara: Garment Girls of Bangladesh, Quiet Flows the River Chitra

Books
  
Golden Bengal, Nishpapa Bamladesa

Interview of anwar hossain


Anwar Hossain (born 1948) is a Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer.

Contents

Anwar Hossain (photographer) Anwar Hossain Chobi Mela VIII

Hossain was born in Old Dhaka in 1948. He earned his Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from Armanitola Government High School in 1965. Two years later he graduated from Notre Dame College, Dhaka. He graduated in architecture from BUET and received higher degree in film from Pune University.

Anwar Hossain (photographer) Anwar Hossain IX

He has written a number of books on photography. His photography captured the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Hossain has won more than 60 international awards in photography. He was the cinematographer of the film Shyamol Chhaya directed by Humayun Ahmed. Hossain has also filmed 15 fictions and 30 documentary films.

A conversation with noted photographer anwar hossain 24 08 2015


Filmography

  • Surja Dighal Bari (La Maison Tragique), 1979
  • Emiler Goenda Bahini, 1980
  • Bostrobalikara: Garment Girls of Bangladesh (TV documentary)
  • Nadir Naam Madhumati (A River Named Madhumati), 1994
  • Chitra Nodir Pare (Quiet Flows the River Chitra), 1999
  • Lalsalu, 2002
  • Shyamol Chhaya (as Anwar Husain), 2004
  • Three Beauties, (producer), 2006
  • Swapnabhumi: The Promised Land, 2007
  • Awards and honors

  • Sole Jury, Commonwealth photo contest, Cyprus, 1980
  • Principal National Jury, Bangladesh, 2008–2011
  • References

    Anwar Hossain (photographer) Wikipedia