Munem Wasif
Wasif préfère photographier les personnes qu’il connaît. Pour cette raison, son pays natal le Bangladesh est son sujet de prédilection. C’est là qu’il élabore ses plus grands projets. Parmi eux, l’on compte notamment les trois livres engagés Bangladesh, Standing on the edge paru en 2008, Larmes salées publié par Images Plurielles en 2011 et Belonging publié en 2013 par les Editions Clémentine de la Feronnière. Ce-dernier traite du vieux Dakha, qui est pour lui un « non-sujet » puisqu’il y habite depuis de nombreuses années. Il essaye alors de retrouver un sentiment d’inédit dans la routine de sa vie quotidienne.
Etre considéré comme un conteur de tradition humaniste, classique dans son approche photographique, ne lui a jamais posé problème, tant que cette approche rende visible la compassion et l’émotion qu’il ressent lorsqu’il photographie ses sujets.
Wasif prefers to photograph the people he knows. Therefore his country Bangladesh is his first, and favourite field of investigation. This is where were born his largest projects, among which there are the three committed books Bangladesh, Standing on the edge (published in 2008), Salty Tears (published by Images Plurielles in 2011) and Belonging (published in 2013 by the Clémentine de la Feronnière Editions). The latter is about the old Dhaka which for him is an unlikely subject as he has lived there for several years. So he tried to find the unseen within his everyday routine.
He never finds it a problem to be treated as a storyteller of a humanistic tradition, classical in his photographic approach, as long as it shows compassion and the emotional he experiences when photographing his subjects.
