About me
Hasan Saifuddin Chandan, popularly known as Hasan Chandan, has been working with
different apprehensions of photography in Bangladesh since 1983. He is teaching in the
Bangladesh Photographic Insttute, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
(BUET), University of Asia Pacific (UAP) since 1991. His photographs have been highly
appreciated at home and abroad. Specialist collectons of his five years of documentaton
work in Kamalapur Railway Staton, Dhaka from 1989 to 1994, brought a breathtaking
photobook The People at Kamalapur Railway Staton. He is doing architectural photography
since 1998 and probably the first Architecture Photographer in the country recognized by
the Insttute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB). He completed a basic photography course in
Begart Insttute of Photography in 1981. He joined many workshops, documentary,
journalism, architecture, interior photography, and art photography conducted by both
Bangladeshi and foreign trainers from the U.S., England, and Germany.
17 Internatonal Awards, including:
FIAP Gold in EUROPA 85 from Spain
FIAP Honorable, Australia, Argentna, Belgium, USA
Grand Prize, 11th Photo Contest in Asia and Pacific organized by Asian Cultural
Center for UNESCO, Japan, 1995
Nikon Honorable Menton & Nikon Third Prize from Nikon Photo Contest
Internatonal, Japan 1986 & 1991
FIAP Silver and The France Federaton of Photography Silver medal, in the
150th Anniversary Authors’ Exhibiton of Photography, France, 1996
World And I -- Magazine Photo Contest
2nd prize
December 1987
Distncton “EFIAP”
The Internatonal Federaton of Photographic Art (FIAP), Belgium, 1995
Honorary Fellowship Bangladesh Photographic Society
First Solo Exhibiton in Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland for one month in 1994
More than 60 photographs were exhibited in various internatonal exhibitons
around the world, including ten photographs in an Author’s Exhibiton on the
eve of the 150th Anniversary in Pablo Picasso and Victor Hugo Museum in France, 1996
PUBLICATION
"The People at KamalapurRailway Staton"
containing 71 photographs (Second editon), 2008
Dhaka
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Past, present & future
Sadar Street, Kolkata
Two old Rickshaw puller friends
Sadar Street, Kolkata
Waiting for passenger
Sadar Street, Kolkata
Street & People of Kolkata
Unknown, Kolkata
Clay & colour
Kumarpara, Kolkata
Joyfull Dancer
Kumarpara, Kolkata
Lion in the cage
Kumarpara, Kolkata
Siesta
Kumarpara, Kolkata
The sculptor
Kumarpara, Kolkata