My Text | Syeed Sumon

In the tapestry of existence, every fleeting second offers rise to a brand new scene, a realm constructed from an infinite array of photographs. These photographs drift via the huge expanse of area in a steady procession, and I transfer inside them not as a passive witness, however as an lively participant on this celestial parade. My process is to go looking via the boundless array and discover the one body that resonates with my imaginative and prescient. For me, this strategy of choice is an act of subtraction the place numerous photographs are quietly discarded, leaving solely the chosen few that talk to the soul.

In the everlasting duel between gentle and shadow, images emerges, the place time is gently held within the steadiness, and the fleeting imprint of a second in area is captured inside the confines of the digital camera.

I see every picture as a type of language.  Within each {photograph} lies a symphony of phrases, every contributing to the formation of a sentence. Photography speaks, not via mere depiction, however by remodeling its essence into a visible narrative. A single {photograph} is a constellation of numerous visible statements, woven collectively to inform a narrative. The viewer, in flip, decodes these visible messages, and inevitably, every interpretation differs, formed by the distinctive perspective of the observer.

In my challenge My Text — or what I typically name My Writings — I create photographs by combining these visible alphabets. To me, they’re writings: a group of sentences made of sunshine and type.

My Text unfolds within the Space Park, a backyard in Dhaka the place the declaration of Bangladesh’s independence as soon as echoed. Long earlier than that, this very area witnessed the gallop of horses throughout the British colonial period. Yet, additional again nonetheless, it was a crucible for the Fakir Sannyasi riot. The tales woven into this land appear to linger, suspended within the very air as reminiscences. My images are a visible providing to the backyard’s historic soul, my approach of permitting the previous to manifest within the current.

In nature, the bushes, the birds, and mankind collectively partake in an everlasting yajna, a sacred providing. The photographs I create are fragments of this ritual: the outcast, the stray canine, the wanderers — all coexisting in a shared concord. It is a sanctuary the place even transient guests, those that come to wander, discover themselves related with the very spirit of the backyard. For me, the backyard is a pretext: chosen exactly due to its fleeting character, its ephemeral nature, which shapes and types the photographs that inform my story.

My photographic characters drift between surrealism and magical realism, creating a novel fusion. They carry inside them a darkish humor, typically drawing out sudden shadows that tinge the body with melancholy. Yet in my work, melancholy and hope are by no means separate; they stroll aspect by aspect, entwined within the delicate dance of sunshine and darkness.My Text is the writing I compose via my digital camera. It is a story that, when decoded, continues the method of human existence, sustaining the viewer’s journey towards therapeutic. Through my lens, this textual content unfolds, guiding the observer via a path of reflection the place every picture turns into a step within the ongoing work of inside restoration.