Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) will host a solo photography exhibition French Diaries: 25 Years, 25 Images by the eminent artiste Anwar Hossain at its La Galerie.

The inauguration of the exhibition will be held on 22 January 2016 at 5:00pm. The ceremony will be followed by a special slideshow at Auditorium Nouvelle Vague at 7:00pm.

Photographer and public health consultant Dr Pierre Claquin will be present on the occasion as the chief guest. Senior general manager Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC Dilip Das Gupta, Chevalier, and eminent photographer Nasir Ali Mamun will be present as the special guests. Director of AFD Bruno Plasse will also preside over the opening ceremony.

French Diaries: 25 Years, 25 Images

The pictures are Hossain’s reflection of a life of 25 years. For the duration of this time, he had been living in France. In that sense, the exhibition is a kind of a 'photographic biography', though he appears more as a subjective human being than a photo-biographer.

One such photograph, titled 'Cartier Bresson's Window', is of rain droplets on the windowpane — from which the viewers will surely establish an understanding, a recollection, or a kind of a sensitivity of their own than the perceptible aesthetics. The impassioned embrace of the lips shared by a couple, as photographed by Hossain, can almost be juxtaposed with the masterpiece 'V-J Day in Times Square' by Alfred Eisenstaedt, albeit the way Hossain portrayed his is unobtrusive and quite in nature.

The exhibition will be open to all till 30 January from Monday to Thursday (3:00pm to 9:00pm), Friday and Saturday (9:00am to 12 noon and 5:00pm to 8:00pm), except for Sunday.