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Statement by the photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI
"The trip from the airport into the city takes almost as long as the flight from Dubai to Dhaka. Rickshaws, cars, buses and two wheelers clog the road in a never ending traffic jam." (© Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 2019)
Background information
"The 'City Diaries' book series is a joint publishing project between an independent publisher and award-winning German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI. Each diary focuses on a single city, somewhere in the world, against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing world. Until today these diaries has been published about these worldwide cities (in chronological order): Cairo, Athens, Wolfsburg, Taipei, Kochi, Beirut, Wuhan, Zurich Budapest, Osaka, Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast and Linz. Each diary focuses on a single city, somewhere in the world, against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing world. All books were designed by Andrea RAUSCHENBUSCH, the series maintain the same size and contain 51 double-page photographs as well as a diary text. The 'Dhaka Diary' series was shot between 21 February – 1 March 2019 and is the 11th installment in the City Diary book series.
Content
In 'Dhaka Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the city of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, the fourth-most densely populous city in the world with a population of over 21 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. Capturing its crowded streets and back-alleys, his images reveal a city in constant state of development." (© The Velvet Cell, 2021)