Hotels-live.com - Every two years, Dhaka becomes the unlikely site of Chobi Mela (@chobimela), one the world’s most unusual photography festivals. Almost a dozen exhibitions span the city, ranging from a movie theater with disc-shaped photographs suspende

Hotels-live.com - Every two years, Dhaka becomes the unlikely site of Chobi Mela (@chobimela), one the world’s most unusual photography festivals. Almost a dozen exhibitions span the city, ranging from a movie theater with disc-shaped photographs suspended in mid-air, to vinyl-printed images carried along by a roving fleet of cycle rickshaws. “There are lots of photographers like me who have grown up with Chobi Mela,” says photojournalist Munem Wasif (@munemwasif), now also a festival curator. “It's entirely a Bangladeshi-run festival for an international audience. Normally the festivals are based in the west and it’s not possible for us to go and visit all these places.” He reveals the logic behind the obscure venue locations that transform the exhibition experience into a scavenger hunt through the congested streets of the old city. “We want people to travel, and struggle, and see how Dhaka is.” To see more celebrations of photography at Chobi Mela, explore the #chobimela and #CMVIII hashtags. Photo by @asmitaparelkar @Hotelslive by instagram instagram.com/p/ymjFkKhQZd/ Follow instagram @Hotelspaschers instagram.com/hotelspaschers and @Voyageslive #Twitter #TeamFollowBack #Instagram #Voyage #Travel #TFB #FollowTrick www.facebook.com/125048940862168/photos/a.801853623181693... via Hotels-live.com www.facebook.com/pages/p/125048940862168 #Retweet #TeamFollowBack #F4F #TityFollowTrain via http://flic.kr/p/qKcY1p