{"id":699,"date":"2014-07-31T22:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/?p=699"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:38:46","slug":"review-of-tobacco-tale-on-ozarts-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/review-of-tobacco-tale-on-ozarts-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW OF \u201cTOBACCO TALE\u201d ON OZARTS ETC"},"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<h1 class=\"title\">Tobacco Tale by Sayed Asif Mahmud<\/h1>\n<div class=\"postmeta-primary\"><span class=\"meta_date\">July 29, 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix jpibfi_container\">\n<p>Zoom on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160411161040\/http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sayed Asif Mahmud<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<strong>\u201cTobacco Tale\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0series. Since 2008, this young photographer documents Bangladesh\u2019s tobacco industry, particularly the units that produce the bidis, unfiltered hand-rolled cigarettes sold in boxes. If the goal is to highlight the extreme conditions of work in these factories, for \u201cTobacco Tale\u201d, Sayed Asif Mahmud favored some singular point of view and aesthetics.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.45.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1076\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.45.00-PM.png 1076w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.45.00-PM-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.45.00-PM-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.45.00-PM-1024x586.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The use of analog black and white brings indeed a unique grain and shares in such a way the atmosphere of those places. The image process evacuates the relation to time and emphasizes the feeling of loneliness instilling some part of strangeness into this reality. In the middle of toxic smokes, dust heaps and hard heats, the workers, men, women, and children, use any minute of their time, all year long, to face the quota they are committed to.<\/p>\n<p>And, if this rhythm compromises of course their health, the consumption of the bidis they produce only makes the situation go worst. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160411161040\/http:\/\/www.healthbridge.ca\/Tobacco%20and%20Poverty%20Research%20Results%20English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report from Canada\u2019s HealthBridge Foundation<\/a>\u00a0stated in 2011 a relation between smoking and poverty. This one highlights the correlation between cigarettes consumption and income in the disadvantaged areas. In addition to the health consequences it induces, this addiction takes an important slice of the budget in families already living under the poverty line. \u201cTobacco Tale\u201d, failing to change the order, helps in alerting the public opinion about this trend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 See more at: http:\/\/www.en.ozartsetc.com\/2014\/07\/29\/tobacco-tale-by-sayed-asif-mahmud\/#sthash.EprdYleu.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco Tale by Sayed Asif Mahmud July 29, 2014 Zoom on\u00a0Sayed Asif Mahmud\u2018s\u00a0\u201cTobacco Tale\u201d\u00a0series. Since 2008, this young photographer documents Bangladesh\u2019s tobacco industry, particularly the units that produce the bidis, unfiltered hand-rolled cigarettes sold in boxes. If the goal is to highlight the extreme conditions of work in these factories, for \u201cTobacco Tale\u201d, Sayed Asif &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/review-of-tobacco-tale-on-ozarts-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;REVIEW OF \u201cTOBACCO TALE\u201d ON OZARTS ETC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[157,158,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}