Sarker Protick works through photography and moving images, charting two intersecting courses. One remains rooted in his hometown of Dhaka, following the city’s shifting form and memory. The other traces the socio-political cartography of Bangladesh and the wider Bengal region. Protick’s works are built on long-term surveys that follow infrastructures of extraction, railways, waterways, industrial corridors—as conduits through which imperial histories sediment and reappear.
Protick’s work has been recipients of the After Nature Prize awarded by C/O Berlin & Crespo Foundation, Joop Swart Masterclass, Light Work Residency, Magnum Foundation Fund, World Press Photo Award etc. Since 2017, Protick has been a resident curator of Chobi Mela and in 2024 was invited to co-curate the eighth edition of Colomboscope. A graduate of Pathshala, Protick has been teaching at the school for over a decade, working closely with the younger generation of image-makers in the country.
Protick is represented by Shrine Empire in Delhi.