Arafat Hasan of DOT : Eminent photographer Anwar Hossain was found dead at a hotel in Dhaka’s Panthapath area yesterday morning, according to a report by The Daily Star.
On receiving information, police broke open the door of room No. 809 of Olio Dream Haven around 11:30am and found his body lying on the bed, said GG Biswas, officer-in-charge of Sher-e-Bangla Police Station.
There was no injury mark on his body, he was quoted OC as saying.
Anwar Hossain is a Bangladeshi-born French citizen who boarded the hotel on November 28. He came to Bangladesh to take part in a photography competition as judge, the general manager of the hotel said.
The hotel authorities called police when the organizers came to pick him up but he did not respond.
Police will send the body to Suhrawardi Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Born in 1948, Anwar Hossain is a veteran photographer and cinematographer. He studied Architecture in BUET and Film studies in Pune University.
He captured the liberation war and the movements preceding it.
Hossain won more than 60 international awards in photography. He filmed 15 fictions and 30 documentaries and published eight major photo books. He began in 1969 with a humble camera that he bought for Tk 30.
One of the photos from his first batch of clicks in 1969 won him a national award in Pakistan.