Balancing the Corner / হ য ব র ল
Balancing The Corner’ is a photographic series of sculptures made with mundane objects during this pandemic. The work grew with obsession, focus, and intimacy over belongings in an undesired time frame of life, more like a documentation of pandemic days.
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Durikata / ডুরিকাটা
Durikata searches for the different types of paper-based bindings (book, notebook, conventional, lost/old techniques) and combines them together in a form of illustrations, photographs (microscopic), and words. The whole research is based on Bogura, a northern city of Bangladesh...Considering the facts of paper-based binding (preserving/sharing knowledge), Durikata questions and does not limit itself only by showing conventional ways of bindings but rather adding some local techniques of sharing thoughts or emotions. For example, Durikata counts crumbling a page and throwing it to someone to share a note as a binding technique. After talking to the local binders and recording the binding techniques we came up with nearly sixty types of binding techniques; which can be divided into ten chapters (or main branches).
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Mother Died and Time Passed / পরিচয়
Rohingyas – possibly the world’s largest stateless population. Almost a million Rohingyas have sought refuge in Bangladesh, fleeing persecution and unimaginable suffering in their own country. In Bangladesh, they have found shelter in a few refugee camps in the Technuf area. The biggest one of these camps is Kutupalong, located in Ukhiya. ...The ID card had decayed over the years. Paper weathered; ink faded. It appears that the identity of the Rohingya has faded with them too. So in my picture, I lose details. I process negatives of the digital snaps I take and then print again in the Darkroom to lose the details, intentionally. Faded identity of a forgotten people.
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Ocean Beneath the Door / অশান বিনিথ দ্যা ডোর
Credits
Director Nishat Jahan Nafiza
Cinematographer, Producer Mushfiq Turjo
Sound Design Rajesh Saha
Edit Masum Shahriar
Poster Design Razib Datta
LULU / লুলু
Late at night; The phone rang, a distant call came from Europe. My friend told me he would return home after finishing his studies only if I could manage a job for him in our homeland. Otherwise, he will take a study break and try to fit into a foreign land. I couldn't.
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Joy ride / জয় রাইড
Other than a privileged few, most rely on public transport. During rush hours, people fill lucky to have the opportunity to be packed up like sardines inside banged-up, discoloured, rusty old cans affectionately called ‘busses’. The ones losing the battle to get on can do nothing but wait. Getting a ride, however, doesn’t guarantee to move on. The traffic is slow and at times totally stagnant.
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