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Experiencing Life Poetry with Bangladeshi Photographer @sarkerprotick

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“I’m always looking, always seeing, even when I’m not taking pictures,” says Bangladeshi photographer Sarker Protick (@sarkerprotick), describing his continuous fascination with the world (and outer space) around him. Citing points of reference ranging from ducks, cats and clouds to quantum mechanics, wormholes and string theory, Sarker brushes off the stylistic constraints of traditional documentary photography, and explains, “The reason I wanted to be a photographer, to be quite honest, is because I didn’t want to be a journalist. I always wanted to have a sense of authorship in my work. To tell stories, or to approach it in the way that poetry works.”

“I started taking photographs with a mobile phone at the end of 2008. It had a small 2-megapixel camera. It had three modes only. You could take color, you could take black-and-white and you could take sepia, and I was always taking snapshots. I had no previous experience or ideas about photography at that time. But because of that mobile phone I was taking snapshots all the time. Whenever I was traveling or with my friends, I was taking pictures of my friends, the sky, clouds, my cat, whatever. And I remember one day I tried taking a picture of the sun, and my phone just crashed. It never worked again after that, and I was really sad. After a few months I bought a very small DSLR camera, but I was still studying business at that time — I had not graduated from university yet. After I graduated, I started studying photography at a school called Pathshala, in Bangladesh. And that’s when I started taking photography seriously.”

Only a few years later, at the age of 29, Sarker is now an instructor at Pathshala, teaching a course on personal, long-term photography projects, and he describes what he himself has learned:

“Photography can sometimes give you much more than a good photograph. It’s not about the image — and for me, that’s the real beauty of photography. I’m not sure that any other art medium has this sort of character, because it’s about the experience that we go through while we work. We work in a certain environment, or with particular people, and that experience that enriches us is stronger than any single photograph.” He continues, “I will die one day — we’ll all die one day — and I need to show other people what I’ve gone through in my life. That’s something quite powerful, I think.”

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