Bangladesh is south Asia’s greenest jewel – a country braided with rivers, with a rich culture waiting to be explored by pioneering travelers and enthusiast photographers. It is a paradise for photographers – A unique photo experience in the heart of South Asia. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most fascinating street and people photography destinations. This is one of the world’s most densely populated countries, but lovely and friendly peoples always welcome you. In our each expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s rich cultures, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, peoples and daily lives with amazing photography opportunities.
“If you have a passion for photography and travel, we have the photo tour for you.”
BENGAL NEW YEAR & MUSLIM FESTIVAL
Tour Date: 14-28 April 2024
It is an excellent opportunity for photographers to explore Bengali New Year and Muslim Eid festival together. These two most significant festivals are the closest dates in 2024. Eid ul Fitr is one of the most prominent Muslim festivals, during this festival more than 10 million people travel by train, bus, and ferry from cities to their origin homes. Due to insufficient transport at this time, people travel by overcrowded roof of trains, overloaded ferries, and buses. Discover celebrating the most colorful Bengali New Year and The Charak worship most traditional and folk festival. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s rich cultures & rituals, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, peoples and daily lives with amazing photography opportunities.
BISHWA IJTEMA MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE
Tour Date: January 2024, 2025 & 2026
Explore the world’s most crowded trains in Bangladesh during the Muslim Pilgrimage. The “Bishwa Ijtema” Muslim Pilgrimage is the World Muslim Congress held in Bangladesh every year in January since 1942. It is the 2nd largest Muslim congregation in the world after the holy Hajj, More than 5 million Muslims gathered at Bishaw Ijtema.Three days long activities of devotees praying, praying on the road, discussing Islam, bath, cooking, and others in the congress area. During the pilgrimage thousands of devotees travel by overcrowded trains, rooftops, engine side and all the trains are filled with devotees, it an unbelievable crowd in all trains. The tour also included North-East Districts & South Diversity of Bangladesh in this expedition.
GOLDEN BENGAL
Tour Date: 14-27 November 2023, 2024 & 2025
Golden Bengal Photography is one of the best photography expeditions of Image Tours. This is the best photography season in Bangladesh. The most interesting thing in this expedition to photography at the Candlelight Prayer Festival: thousands of devotees gather around the holy shrine, their faces glowing with the warm flicker of countless candles. Huge stores of betel nuts, the best fishing season and thousands of drying fish. Colorful moon-shaped boats and fishing activities. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s rich cultures & rituals, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, peoples and daily lives with amazing photography opportunities.
COLORS OF BENGAL
Tour Date: 13-26 February 2024, 2025 & 2026
The Colors of Bengal photography trip is the most exclusive photography expedition of the Image tours. The best season for Red Chilies drying on country-yard, women sitting in the middle of a million chilies, sorting them by hand. The most spectacular spring festival where Hundreds of people join the cultural ceremony to celebrate the spring festival wearing colorful traditional dresses. Riot of colors in the largest tie-dying fabric villages. Thousands of drying fish, colorful moon shaped boats and fishing activities. Discover North to South of Bangladesh. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s rich cultures, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, peoples and daily lives with amazing photography opportunities.
TRAIN & MUSLIM EID FESTIVAL 2
Tour Date: 07-18 June 2024 & 2025
Eid ul Adha is one of the biggest Muslim festivals, during this festival, more than 10 million people travel by train, bus and ferry from cities to their origin home. Due to not sufficient transport at this time, people travel by overcrowded roofs of trains, overloaded ferries and buses. Train & Muslim Eid Festival is the best for train photography. In this trip, you will also explore the amazing floating guava market in the south, the local pineapple market, Asia’s largest shipyard, Fishing at sea beach, peoples, daily life, and culture with amazing photography opportunities.
DISCOVER BANGLADESH
Tour Dates: 01-14 December 2023, 2024 & 2025
Discover Bangladesh is one of the best photography expeditions of Image Tours. This is the best photography season in Bangladesh. Most exciting things in this season to photography on rural Fishing Festival, Asia’s largest shipyard, Huge stores of betel nuts, Riot of colors in the largest tie-dying fabric villages, the best fishing season and thousands of drying fish. Colorful moon-shaped boats and fishing activities. In this expedition you will explore Bangladesh’s rich cultures & rituals, vibrant festivals, ancient traditions, peoples and daily lives with amazing photography opportunities.
RIVERINE BEAUTY OF BANGLADESH
Tour Dates: 01-12 August 2024, 2025 & 2026
Explore the Barisal District the most beautiful destination in the southern part of Bangladesh. It’s called ‘the Venice of Bengal’ for its beauty. There is another saying that ‘Rice, Canals, and Rivers make Barisal’. Here explores the biggest floating Guava market in Bangladesh at the best of the season of guava harvesting. In the Northern region, you will explore numerous bicycles full of pineapple and mangoes carried to the local market, The largest open mango market in Bangladesh where the entire market is filled with mangoes. In this expedition, you will also explore A slum home to Asia’s largest shipyard, thousands of drying fish, colorful moon-shaped boats and fishing activities in South Bay the world’s longest sea beach.
BENGAL NEW YEAR & CHARAK
Tour Dates: 05-15 April 2024, 2025 & 2026
Discover celebrating the most colorful Bengali New Year and Mongal Shovajatra rally UNESCO world heritage recognized. Hindu ritual festival the Charak worship most traditional and folk festival, floating watermelon market, stone mine and more. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s riches Festivals, peoples, daily life, and culture with amazing photography opportunities.
TRAIN & MUSLIM EID FESTIVAL
Tour Date: 20 March-02 April 2025
Eid ul Fitr is one of the biggest Muslim festivals, during this festival more than 10 million people traveling by train, bus and ferry from cities to their origin homes. Due to not sufficient transport in this time, people travel by overcrowded roof of trains, overloaded ferries and buses. Train & Muslim Eid Festival is the best for train photography. On this trip, you will also explore the food festival, Asia’s largest shipyard, Fishing at sea beach, peoples, daily life, and culture with amazing photography opportunities.
DISCOVER DHAKA
Round the Year
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is the beating heart of Bangladesh, filled with colourful cycle rickshaws, street vendors, markets and some of Dhaka’s most iconic colonial buildings. It is the sort of place you could return to repeatedly and come away with completely different images. The most exciting things on the trip to photography on Asia’s largest shipyard, Traditional Brick factories, Daily labor carrying coad in the coal port, the daily life of slum people in the biggest slum in Dhaka, people, daily life, Street of the old Dhaka and the culture with amazing photography opportunities.
DAY LONG DAHAKA
Day-long Dhaka photo trip specifically for those photo lovers who do not have enough time to join our existing or Discover Dhaka tour. Dhaka has many exciting things for photography but within one day it is not possible to cover those things. Please visit our Discover Dhaka trip and you can choose which things you want to cover in a day trip.
EXTENSION TOUR IN BARISAL
Tour Date: Related to Existing Tours
The most exciting thing in this extension expedition is to explore the Barisal District the most beautiful destination in the southern part of Bangladesh. It’s called ‘the Venice of Bengal’ for its beauty. There is another saying that ‘Rice, Canals, and Rivers make Barisal’. Here explores Bangladesh’s biggest floating market, life in boats: The Manta community of Bangladesh has been living on boats for over 100 years, traditional otter fishing on the river. In Dhaka explore the Geneva Refugees camp, Biggest Slum and more.
Bengal New Year & Muslim Eid Festival Photo Tour
It is an excellent opportunity for photographers to explore Bengali New Year and Muslim Eid festival together. These two biggest festivals are close dates in the years 2023 and 2024. During this festival, more than 10 million people travel by train, bus and ferry from cities to their origin homes. celebrating Bengali New Year, the Hindu ritual festival the Charak worship, the Best season for Red Chilies processing. In this expedition, you will explore Bangladesh’s riches festivals, people, daily life, and culture with amazing photography opportunities
Private or Customize Photo Tour
We organize private & individual or customize photo tours for photographers, small groups, club members groups, workshop groups, photography school students, or any friend’s photographers group. Our custom private photo tours are booked on-demand only, so we can reflect your specific needs, and photography style and create a unique tailor-made photographic experience for you. If you want to make good use of your time in Bangladesh, we will help you to arrange a custom private photography experience of a lifetime.
Bishwa Ijtema-the World Muslimg Pilgrim Photo Tour
It is the 2nd largest Muslim congregation in the world after the holy Hajj, More than 4 million Muslims gathered at Bishaw Ijtema. Since 1947 every year in January held this congress at Bangladesh.
In this occasion people travel by overcrowded risky ride on trains even roof of the trains, buses, boats and otehr transport.
Travel with the best ! The Photo Tour Leader
Yousuf Tushar EFIAP
Director of Image Tours
Tushar is recognized as one of the leading freelance documentary photographers based in Bangladesh. As well as he is a Travel & Art photographer, writer, instructor, organizer and judge of National & international photography competitions. He has years of experience guiding photo tours & workshops. His wide & long-time experience in Travel photography, Organizing, teaching and prestigious international award-winning made him one of the best photographers in Bangladesh. He has excellent knowledge about perfect places to capture a photo of every place in Bangladesh. He loves to help with hands-on experience in a Creative learning environment while out in the field, and he absolutely loves leading photo tours! Since 2000 he has been working full-time professional photographer, over this time he has traveled to many countries as a travel photographer. His works have been published in Times UK, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes magazine, BBC, National Geographic, Daily Mail, Sunday Post, Express UK, The Sun, The Atlantic, USA Today, and renowned international photo agencies. His photographs were exhibited in different international photo exhibitions in Asia, Europe & USA. He has owned more than a hundred National & International prestigious photographic awards including HPA-UNESCO china, Emirates photo contest, Asahi Shimbun Japan, United Nations IYC Singapore, People & Planet Australia, PX3 Paris, CBRE Urban photographer of the year, Pink Lady UK, SIENA International, A Photo Reporter, New York-Manhattan, celebrating Life Bangladesh and numerous FIAP & PSA patronage Award.
Presently he is the Secretary General & FIAP Liaison officer of the Bangladesh Photographic Society. More Details About him