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Naib Uddin Ahmed (1927-), FBPS 77
Naib Uddin Ahmed is the foremost amongst senior and dedicated photographic artists
and organizers of Bangladesh. His photographs show the nature of rural Bengal, the
way of life and struggle of the people close to its nature and culture is expressed with
great beauty. In his photographs the people are glowing and distinguished as they
uphold the eternal culture and heritage of rural Bengal (figs. 10.4, 10.5). Nature loving
Naib Uddin has created a ‘romantic world’ of eternal nature and beauty in his
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photographs entitled Banglar Mukh, Amar Bangla, Manush O Nadi, etc. He took some
documentary photographs of the War of Liberation of 1971. In 1977 a joint publication
entitled Bangladesh with the photographs of himself and his younger brother Noazesh
Ahmed was the first photographic album of Bangladesh. In his professional life he
was the photographer of Mymensingh Agriculture University from its very inception
and is now retired. He played a role in the development of photography in Bangladesh fig. 10.19 (top) Naib
over a prolonged period of time by establishing the ‘Alokchitra Shilpi Samsad’ of Uddin Ahmed,
Mymensingh and its various activities. Photograph Nafis
Ahmed Nadvi,
M. A. Beg (1931-1998), Hon. FBPS, ESFIAP, FSIPC 80
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© Nafis Ahmed Nadvi
Alokchitracharya M. A. Beg was simultaneously a famed photographer, specialist
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reprographer, dedicated teacher and also a distinguished writer on photography. He fig. 10.20 (right bottom)
joined the then Pakistan Air Force in 1949 and was trained in photography in the M.A. Beg, photograph
technical training center of the Air Force in Karachi. In 1955 while he was working at Imtiaz Alam Beg,
PANSDOC in Karachi he received training on microfilm from Kurt Blum, the © Begart Institute of Photography
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specialist of the UNESCO. In 1968 he took training in world famous Hartfield College fig. 10.21 (left bottom)
of Technology of the United Kingdom in reprography and in the Kodak Photographic Sram (labor),
School in color photography. The institutional education in photography was photograph M.A. Beg,
introduced by him through the honorary award winning
Bengal Institute of Photography photograph at the 1st
(1960). With the establishment of Commonwealth
BPS and through its total activities photography
he played a major role in the competition,
photographic movement of the © Begart Institute of Photography
country. He received many
international prizes and recognitions
(fig. 10.21) including the first prize
in the ‘Photokina’ international
competition of Germany. In 1982
‘Photographic Association of
Dumdum’ (PAD) recognized him as
one of the 11 best photographers of
the world in that year. In 2007 he was
awarded the Ekushey Padak
(posthumous), the national award for
his contribution to photography.