Emerging photographers of Bangladesh

Being a busy metropolis with over 2 crore folks, Dhaka has tales to inform from each potential dimension. Town is like an album with a whole bunch of hundreds of images that depicts life.

Salman Siddique Prottoy, Anirban Kaiser and Saif Sarwar are three photographers who’re attempting to seize these life tales, the aura of Dhaka, our very personal ‘Jadur Shohor,’ every in their very own methods.

This author talked to those younger photographers who’re rising in prominence via the lens of their cameras.

Salman Siddique Prottoy

                            Salman Siddique Prottoy

Salman Siddique Prottoy is a Third-year undergraduate pupil at the moment learning within the Division of Economics at Dhaka College (DU), who’s “comparatively new to the world of images” in his personal phrases. He all the time had the urge to take a look at peculiar issues from a distinct standpoint since his childhood.

Prottoy’s images

“I used to take pictures with my smartphone until 2019. Then I took a brief hiatus from images till August 2020 once I purchased my digicam. I began by doing city panorama and road images with my restricted technical data of images again then.”

Prottoy’s images

Being a quick learner, Prottoy grasped the thought of what he was attempting to painting with the magical machine in his hand quickly.

“I did a juxtaposition photograph collection referred to as ‘Dhaka- Paper on Air’ which gave me my first little bit of appreciation and awards from a handful of images awards. It was a earlier than and after distinction sequence between the day by day lives of Dhaka within the 80s and the present technology.

“Transferring from that, my motto to take pictures was all the time to focus on topics and environment that are virtually all the time taken as a right by photographers.”

Speaking about his preferences and passions he added, “Certainly one of my favorite topics to shoot is the Royal Bengal Rickshaw, the experience that each Bangladeshi use of their each day motion.”

Prottoy’s images

The back-hood of a rickshaw surprisingly resembles a sublime muslin or Jamdani veil to Prottoy. He likes to name it the city palanquin of modern-day Dhaka.

“To me, Dhaka is a concrete jungle and when I’m all of the residing respiration issues on this ecosystem, I really feel like a wildlife photographer within the costume of a road photographer.” 

“I’ve been doing images for about 19 months with my digicam,” Prottoy narrates his future plan, “Though I’m at the moment a hobbyist photographer with ardour as my solely drive, I’m planning to maneuver to movement photos from nonetheless ones and make full-length characteristic movies sooner or later.”

Prottoy has a big fan following on social media websites, with a few of his works transcending Bangladesh and turning into fashionable in Kolkata reaching as many as about one million folks.

Anirban Kaiser

Anirban Kaiser, a pupil on the Division of Mass Media and Journalism at Impartial College, Bangladesh has a distinct ardour. He gravitates towards journey and trend images.

Anirban’s images

Talking of his journey he instructed the author, ” My images journey began again in 2017 throughout my A-Degree days once I received my first ever smartphone. For the primary two years it was a interest, slowly after getting a superb response on social media, I began to take images extra severely.”

A pair in Puran Dhaka – Anirban’s images.

“I took out a dusty seven-year-old digicam Nikon D60 from the nook of my drawer that my uncle gave to me and went out to discover with it. Pictures used to work as a remedy for me particularly again in my A-Degree days below large research strain. “

Anirban’s images

Anirban has travelled lots in life which he thinks formed his creativity and love for capturing tales.

“I really like watching movies as effectively which had an impression on my visuals and color sense. All through the years, I’ve had the chance to work and {photograph} some unbelievable folks.”

Anirban, regardless of his comparatively brief stint as a photographer, has already been featured at many world-renowned locations. Speaking about his outstanding works, he mentioned,

“Amongst all of the options I might say my {photograph} getting featured in Al Jazeera was considered one of my greatest achievements. It was {a photograph} from the protest in opposition to Rape again in November 2020.”

A photograph from the protest in opposition to rape in 2020 – Anirban’s images.

Many images of that protest have been featured internationally and across the nation. Anirban had the chance to work with many celebrities and influencers from the nation and worldwide influencers like Expensive Alyne from workforce Nas Every day on her journey to Dhaka.

“I’ve labored with YouTubers like Rafsan the Chotobhai, Ayman Sadiq, Tawhid Afridi and my favorite Bangladeshi bands like Nemesis, Artcell, Encore, Keep away from Rafa and lots of extra. I’ve had the chance to work with many main fashions of the business,” shared the younger photographer concerning his various journey.

Anirban’s images

Anirban desires to take images as a career and being an avid traveller, desires to go to all potential international locations on this planet whereas representing Bangladesh on a world stage.

Saif Sarwar

Saif Sarwar

In contrast to the opposite two, Saif Sarwar has a distinct area of curiosity. He focuses on vehicles images, beginning off as a musical content material creator on YouTube, Saif moved in direction of images after a couple of years and has to date been contemplating it to be his long-term occupation.

Jeep Wrangler – Saif’s images.

“I made music straight 4-5 years to see and to essentially make it to my full-time profession. Nevertheless, little did I do know that making music full-time right here in Bangladesh is an almost not possible factor to think about and is effectively criticised.

“So a couple of years later, I believed and virtually noticed that making music will take me nowhere and I’ve to modify as much as one thing that may get me someplace.”

Apart from music, Saif’s 2nd curiosity was Pictures. He remembers getting anybody’s telephone to take lovely pictures.

BMW- Saif’s images

Issues started to alter as Saif made a video that day in 2019 which received appreciated by all the Automobile Neighborhood and that received him a variety of consideration all through the automotive scene.

“As I continued attending completely different Automotive Occasions and making cinematic movies and pictures, I used to be slowly beginning to get approached by Automotive Companies. And as quickly as I began making movies and pictures professionally inside the automotive scene, I already had good contact inside the companies.”

Saif has already collaborated with among the massive names within the Car business.

“I had the chance to work with some Large Automotive manufacturers, Equivalent to JEEP and Audi. I felt Impressed and I stored on creating and bettering all through the method,” he famous.

As of 2022, Saif remains to be working with Automotive manufacturers and making On-line content material as effectively. Social media has labored like a allure for him and his work, hundreds of individuals recognize them.

“Each on YouTube and different platforms like Instagram and TikTok, my movies get a variety of consideration from Bangladesh in addition to another Nations.”

Ford Mustang – Saif’s images.

As of now, Saif is planning to maneuver to a different nation in order that his work will get a broader alternative and he can create for extra manufacturers and make his manner slowly into the movie business.

“I plan to maneuver overseas as the car scene in Bangladesh remains to be fairly new, however wish to signify Bangladesh on this sector as we’re underrepresented.”

Pictures being a full-time occupation remains to be not mainstream in Bangladesh. However with folks like Prottoy, Anirban and Saif, capturing a number of genres of the bustling scenes within the capital, it could be a craft that many individuals could be prepared to grasp sooner or later.

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