{"id":688,"date":"2015-03-12T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:37:11","slug":"ones-to-watch_british-journal-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/ones-to-watch_british-journal-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"ONES TO WATCH_BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','https:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-33681611-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-916\" src=\"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-3_1-640x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-3_1-640x375.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-3_1-640x375-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026his more recent work, <em>Sleep Driver, focuses on a parallel world of a different\u00a0variety\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In that same atmospheric monochrome, Mahmud\u2019s more contemporary work is a romantic, somnambulist depiction of Bangladeshi culture. It starts with young couples in love, drinking and smoking together, kissing and embracing in a half caught blur, looking out over a sunset. The series moves to strange shots of abandoned buildings, birds gathering in the gloaming, then esoteric, moments of danger, the orbital light of a train, the picture taken low, Esher-like staircases, silhouettes of men in the drench of harsh urban lights, then close, distorted street portraits, in turns vulnerable and threatening\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPhotography gives me the excuse to access someone else\u2019s life, beyond any class and gender,\u201d he says \u201cto understand life, I borrow someone else\u2019s face to tell my story, fantasy and sufferings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More about the issue:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161024040931\/http:\/\/www.bjp-online.com\/2015\/01\/ones-to-watch-annual-survey-talent-british-journal-photography\/\">http:\/\/www.bjp-online.com\/2015\/01\/ones-to-watch-annual-survey-talent-british-journal-photography\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-917\" src=\"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-4_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-4_1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-4_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-4_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Photo-4_1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2026his more recent work, Sleep Driver, focuses on a parallel world of a different\u00a0variety\u2026\u00a0 In that same atmospheric monochrome, Mahmud\u2019s more contemporary work is a romantic, somnambulist depiction of Bangladeshi culture. It starts with young couples in love, drinking and smoking together, kissing and embracing in a half caught blur, looking out over a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/ones-to-watch_british-journal-of-photography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ONES TO WATCH_BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,137],"tags":[139,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}