“Adnan Wahid”

I, by profession am a photographer of Bangladeshi origin now. I like to work with human and focus on the complex community that exists in our society, being in a ship breaking yard or under drainage sewer of the city or wherever I need to be. As present I am working as a staff photographer at DrikNEWS, a news photo agency based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I am also studying in 3rd year in advanced program in photography in Pathshala-South Asian Media Academy. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 I was nominated for ‘Joop Swart Marsterclass’ organized by World Press Photo. My works are published in National Geographic Magazine, Readers Digest, The Guardian, The Daily Star, The Daily New Age, Himal Southasian, Better Photography and in other publications. Besides that I was a practicing lawyer from 2007-2009 in Chittagong Bar but later I decided to change my track to photography taking much loved hobby as a profession.

Urban gardening

Dhaka -  Considering excessive heat because of concrete structures in the capital city, people started planting trees and taking care of them. We don’t have urban forestry in Bangladesh in practice, largely…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

They need a new coat of colour

Dhaka -  Walking along the ‘Beribandh’ or the city embankment is an experience to see many things such as tanneries, slums, motor-workshops, waste-recycling shops, expansion of the city etc. What welcome you…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Terrific Traffic

Dhaka -  A bus assistant looks hopeless as the bus is caught in the traffic for long while at Sat Masjid Road in Dhaka. Bad traffic seems to the ‘matter of must’…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Goat and the tea-stall

Dhaka -  Rafique Uddin runs his little tea-shop in a slum that stands near the ‘Beribandh’, the embankment to protect the city of Dhaka from possible flood of the River Buriganga. Besides…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Open air auto-rickshaw

Dhaka -  Want a fancy ride outside of Dhaka? Want to enjoy the air and sunlight while going here to there? Here is something for that then. An ideal ride to rent…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Chair vs Chair

Dhaka -  Two chairs! They both serve the same but say different stories. They are the stories about origin, colour, treatment, social class etc.One is candy blue, another one is brown…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Love out loud

Dhaka -  What a loud lover Samira has! He didn’t bother SMS, Viber, Skype, Telegram, Facebook, Whatsapp or whatever…he just let the world know that he loves Samira……
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Cattles for extra income

Dhaka -  Cows are seen commonly in the streets of Rayerbazar area in Dhaka. People living in this place are mainly in lower-middle class and they do other work than their main…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

I see Gaia!

Dhaka -  When I first came to Dhaka from Chittagong, I found it to be a concrete jungle: a canopy of high-rises over a habitat of machines. Greenery is hard to find…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Beware of the motorbikers

Dhaka -  A biker rides his motorbike thought the footpath full of pedestrians through the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court declared a regulation that no motorbike can go through footpath…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab