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“A Month 6 Artists and a Book”
SoFoBoMo completed today. Its done!
The intent was to photograph 6 artists [Saidul Haque Juise, Fareha Zeba, Smita Srivastava, Ujwala Prabhu, Rokeya Sultana, Jamal Ahmed] at work, with the least amount of “set-up”. Some people are less conscious of the camera than others, so I had to use a different [...]
SoFoBoMo day 6 – a bit of expansion.
I’d started out the SoFoBoMo project creating a profile of just 2 Bangladeshi artists – Zeba & Juise.  I’m now expanding it to include a few other artists as well. Rokeya Sultana, a Bangladeshi artist; and 2 an Indian artists living in Bangladesh: Ujwala Prabhu and  Smita Srivastava, all just [...]
SoFoBoMo Day-4:
Juise’s workbench. We had a power outage [one of several that we have every day], and I had just stepped into his small “office” and setup 2 SB800s to take some photos of the workspace. It went completely dark in there when the power went out, I was able to focus on something, cant remember [...]
Juise was painting up the 2 massive “muppets” made of paper, cloth, foam and various other materials…. they are really big. One is around 7 feet tall…. the colors were fantastic – yellows and greens. The articulated limbs are incredible! They work by pulling on strings and each joint works separately… images follow asap.
Got some [...]
SoFoBoMoSTART!
I’ve been procrastinatingbut finally have begun photographing for the SoFoBoMo project. I’ll be photographing 2 Bangladeshi artists, Fareha Zeba who is a painter and her husband Saidul Haque Juise a paper sculptor and mask/puppet maker. I spent the afternoon at their home studio, talking over endless cigarettes cups of black tea and chilled beer…. I’d [...]
