Rain Boy by Javed Miandad
Taken during the last rainy season in 2011. A young boy outside the university hall in Dhaka works in a local tea shop and was collecting water in torrential rain. His unposed struggle in such a young age is a poignant, authentic slice of everyday life.
Javed Miandad
Photography is my passion. I feel inner peace when i shoot something good. I love to shoot people specially in their candid moments. I took photography seriously 2010 and now i shoot regularly. I travel a lot. I travel through the villages of country. Bangladesh is a beautiful country and i would love to present the beauty of my country through my lenses. Currently i am studying Engineering in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
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Water Against the Canvas
Anyone who has stood in Dhaka during the height of the monsoon knows the sound of rain when it stops being weather and becomes an ocean falling from the sky. The streets turn to silver canals, the rickshaw bells dim under the roar, and the world retreats behind curtains of water.
Read the reflection →Standing in the Deluge
Adversity has a way of stripping away everything ornamental, leaving only the foundational core of the human spirit. In the posture of this young boy standing in torrential rain outside the university halls, there is no complaint, no melodrama, no bid for pity.
Read the reflection →
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