Requiem for a Dream October 23, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, Photojournalism , add a commentMasud Alam Liton’s “Requiem for a Dream” on the Lightstalkers site documents the lives of the sex workers of Dauladia Ghat, Rajbari, Bangladesh.
The images are an amazing insight into an unseen cloistered world and lead to questions that need to be asked rather than answers.
These are photos that will certainly contribute to social change.
When Andy Levin published his issue on the photographers of Bangladesh in 100 EYES magazine, I was stunned by the power of the photography from Bangladesh. I received a link to Masud Alam Liton’s site recently and am happy to publish his images.
http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/19007
A French Connection October 8, 2009
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Parisian photographer Ali Moon is coming to terms with the Australia that she has been curious about for a long time. She plans to be here for a while, in a country that she describes as fantastic. It is early days for her, she has barely scratched the surface but it is the country, the vastness of the open spaces, the rhythm of life in the bush that she feels most comfortable with.
She wants to spend more time in remote areas, amongst Aboriginal communities, among white communities, in particular farmers, cowboys. She likes their sense of place and self, and the way they connect to each other.
In the cities people lose themselves in consumption, and don’t have the strong sense of nature and the closeness to the land that country people have. It is the wilderness of Western Australia and Queensland that she finds attractive.
She initially studied business and was hired by Stanley Green, the Noor Agency photojournalist to accompany him on a twelve month trip to Mexico and the Caribbean Islands to do street and documentary photography. She says that his photography has not been a major influence but his methodology, his modus operandi has been important. His state of mind, the way he enters his subject, lives his subject, his energy, his fearlessness, his faith in his mission and his sense of destiny, his moral support are all the attributes of a major artist. Stanley Greene has been good at pointing Ali Moon in the right direction, but Ali Moon has her own inner strength, and an ability to connect to an Australia that too few of us have connected with. She has just started scratching the arid surface of Australia’s North but already she has discovered some gems on the road.
Story Bohdan Warchomij
