Sayeed BM
Photography is saying more with less. Writing is where I explain what the camera missed — photo series, stories behind historic images, and observations from the field.
My camera sits at home more than I would like to admit. It is charged, it is ready, and it stays where it is. Almost everything I have shot over the past year has been mobile photography, made on the phone in my pocket rather than the body I saved up for, not because the […]
A RAW file is the complete, unprocessed set of data your camera sensor captures the moment you press the shutter. It holds far more color and light information than a JPEG, but it is not a finished photograph. It needs software and editing before it can be printed, posted, or shared, which is the main […]
I do not own a studio, and every frame of Bengali food photography on this site was made without one, in someone’s actual kitchen or on an actual dining table, in Chittagong or Dhaka, with whatever light happened to be coming through the window that day. People still ask what gear made the shots work. […]
Eighteen kilometres from Tangail town, past Natiapara Bazar, sits a nineteenth century estate built by two brothers who made their fortune trading jute and salt. It has survived over a century, a war, and a change of purpose nobody involved in its construction could have predicted. Today, the palace grounds that once hosted a zamindar’s […]
High in the hills of Bandarban, roughly seventy kilometres from town and eighteen from Ruma, sits a small body of water that geologists still argue about and the Khumi people have never needed to. Bogalake, properly known as Bagakain Lake, is one of only a handful of true lakes in Bangladesh, a country otherwise defined […]
Live concert photography from Cryptic Fate’s set at Overload Festival, one of Bangladesh’s pioneering metal bands, captured in performance by Sayeed Bin Mohiuddin.
Aurthohin Live | All photographs are taken by Sayeed Bin Mohiuddin. Tap to each image for better view.
I grew up in Agrabad. Ice Factory Road was never home, but I’ve walked it thousands of times, enough that it stopped registering as a place and became something closer to a route. The kind of street your feet know before your eyes do. One afternoon I had the camera up for no particular reason, […]
There’s a particular kind of quiet that exists at Chittagong Railway Station at three in the morning. Not silence; there’s never true silence at a station, even an empty one but a stillness underneath the sound. A single fan turning somewhere overhead. A stray dog repositioning itself near the platform edge. The far-off hum of […]
“I consider what I do with the person I shoot a covenant. They present themselves to me, and I treat them with dignity. I refuse to violate that trust.” -JIM Marshall San Quentin State Prison, February 1969. Johnny Cash is mid-performance, surrounded by inmates, television crews, and a small crowd of photographers kept at a […]
“A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.“ –Dorothea Lange She is thirty-two years old. Her children press into her sides, faces turned away from the camera. One hand rests against her jaw. She does not look at you. She looks past you, past the photographer, past the pea-picker’s camp in Nipomo, California; […]
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough. — Robert Capa The photograph below is named ‘The falling soldier’ which is captured in 1936 by Robert Capa. The photographer was capable to capture the exact moment of a soldier being shot on the head. The photograph definitely depicts the ‘decisive moment’ with the […]
This photograph contains a temple located in Panchagar, Bangladesh. This extreme northern region of Bangladesh has been ruled by Pundra, Gupta, Paal, Sen, and Muslims previously. Different architectural beauties have been built by them over centuries in the land. As a part of village centric system for decades, religious structures were a significant part of […]
The PHOTOSERIES is about the Sangrai Festival happens on Chitmorom, Kaptai. The meaning of ‘Sangrai’ is ‘Year Changes’ in English. Bangladeshi Marma and Rakhine groups celebrate this day as one of the main festivals of them. The calendar of the Marmas is called “Mraima Sakraoy”. The Marmaras observe Sangrai as a total of three days, […]
This photos are taken from the outside of the Central Jail in Chittagong. This series contains photos which shows how people try to communicate with the prisoners. They stay outside, try to do a phone call sometimes. In this photo series, I’ve tried to capture the moments in which people are trying to find out […]
This photograph below is part of a series that implied a significant event in history. The photographer behind these photos was Lewis Hine, an individual who worked enormously for social changes with photography as the tool. This particular photo contains a young girl wearing a worn dress stands beside a cotton loom in the factory […]
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson This photograph below is ‘Man Jumping the Puddle’ also known as ‘Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare’. It is […]
I have been doing concert photography for almost 5 years now. I am working as an official photographer of a band in Chittagong, Bangladesh. I am not a pro but I had experiences that can be shared with you and that’s the intention. A concert venue is a place where nothing is stable. No matter […]
