Honorable Mention
The first scream of existence
DESCRIPTION
Covered and soaked in blood, umbilical cord connected to its mother, the boy took his first breathing in this shabby matt to be labeled as a BEDE. The scream of this infant is perhaps the actual screams of every improvised BEDE. Amidst the chaos of life, the whole BEDE community comes together to deliver the child. AUTHOR
My inspiration for photography comes from the people and my surroundings. I love to experience other cultures, meet different people from diverse communities. I believe in immersion photography and spend months listening, observing and talking with my subjects over the course of a project. Photography has become a part of my identity - a force that makes me think, feel and understand human being and the human condition. My work on third gender people, “Reflection of dispersed soul”, hidden for years has brought me various international award and recognition.
Recently, Social Documentary Network (SDN) has featured my work “Survived Against all the Odds”. Apart from that my other individual works have got me recognition of various national and international arenas.
Currently, I am working with different social groups that are deprived of basic human needs. However, at the same time, I am exploring their traditional lifestyle and learning from it.
I have completed basic and foundation courses from “Pathshala South Asian Media Institute “. Later on, I also participated in a documentary photography course of Counter Photo, another renowned photography institute of Bangladesh. Currently, I am pursuing Diploma in photography from Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. I am a lifetime member of “Bangladesh Photographic Society (BPS)” and also a member of PSA (Photographic Society of America.