In this first episode of Chobi Mela O podcast series, Natasha Ginwala launches into an extensive and intimate dialogue with Akinbode Akinbiyi, which they consider as a continuing one. They speak about rhythm, place, time, and atmosphere encompassing the poetic phrases in Akinbiyi’s retrospective show Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air, at Martin… Read More »Free Jazz, and the Weight of the Camera
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In this episode, Tanvi Mishra and Sanjay Kak discuss Kak’s process behind the making of two of his books – one as an editor ‘Witness: Kashmir 1986-2016 : Nine Photographers’, and the other as a publisher ‘Cups of Nun Chai’ by Alana Hunt – both distinct in their approach, yet dealing with the same conflicted… Read More »Collective Narration & the Narratives of Control
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In this episode, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati and Yasmine Eid Sabbagh juxtapose their experiences to speak about the breadth of their works which converge on common spheres of archival images, research and conversations. In context of her long-term project with the inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon, Eid-Sabbagh speaks about letting… Read More »Thinking Contexts and Conversations
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Sabih Ahmed and Sohrab Hura discuss in its entirety, their recent collaboration for the exhibition titled Growing Like a Tree. Ahmed reflects on their curatorial approach in constructing the exhibition as Hura’s practice of book-making, where the walls are less heavier, rather fragile and trembling. Hura speaks about navigating across political geographies – Dhaka, Kathmandu,… Read More »Shared Ecosystems, Geographic Realignments
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Lotte Hoek and Catherine Masud retrospect on their respective moments of arrivals as well as parallels & differences in their journeys in the late 1980’s and early 2000’s in Bangladesh. Masud talks about the Short Film Movement of the 80’s and the first edition of Dhaka International Short & Documentary Film Festival as the pivotal… Read More »Contemporary Dissent – Echoes of the ’80s
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Shaheen Dill-Riaz and Nurul Alam Atique share their divergent trajectories, experiences and evolution as filmmakers, although their aspirations come from common cultural spheres like Shahbag, Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, Short Film Movement and influence of poets in Dhaka. Carrying his deep interest in the works of classic European filmmakers, Dill-Riaz speaks about his encounter with the… Read More »Chronology, Disorder and Pause – An Incomplete Conversation
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Amr Alfiky and Naeem Mohaiemen discuss Alfiky’s experience of photographing the pandemic lockdown, economic carnage, and police brutality protests for the New York Times. Alfiky’s journey took him from studying to be a medical surgeon in Egypt to becoming a photojournalist in America. He talks about his earlier work of documenting the American Muslim experience–from… Read More »Photographing in Isolation Time
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