Sarker Protick, 29, came to photography when one day during his graduate studies at University, he decided to take a picture of the sun with a camera phone. The bright sun immediately crashed his phone, the light proving too intense for his camera, but it did ignite his desire to make pictures.
From Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sarker looks for unheard of stories from his home country, challenging the status quo of visual stereotypes and undoing the common tropes of storytelling. He questions the everyday, and finds exuberance in the ordinary, the real in the unreal.
As a member of VII, Sarker looks forward to collaboration with the other members on exploring the boundaries and meanings of story. “The environment is challenging, but I take comfort in meeting these challenges with VII photographers. Together I know we can make great things”
L'agence photographique vient d'annoncer le recrutement de deux nouveaux photographes. Sarker Protick et Danny Wilcox Frazier viennent compléter l'équipe, composée, entre autres, de James Nachtwey, Christopher Morris ou Ed Kashi.
VII a été fondée le 9 septembre 2001 par sept photographes, comme son nom l'indique, depuis le collectif a grossi et compte à présent 20 photographes à travers le monde, en incluant les deux nouveaux arrivants.
Sarker Protick est un photographe bangladais, sa zone d'activité principale est donc l'Asie du Sud-Est. Ses travaux ont déjà été publiés dans plusieurs journaux prestigieux, comme le New-York Times, National Geographic ou Libération.
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