Sayed Asif Mahmud is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer, with a primary interest in community issues and the urban environment. Asif is currently attending 3 years professional course in photography at Pathshala, South Asian Media Academy. He has participated in various international workshops conducted by renowned teachers and practitioners including Robert Pledge, Laurence Leblanc, Philip Blenkinshop, Jorge Villacorta, Shannon Lee Castleman, Rupert Grey, Sohrab Hura, Abir Abdullah and Munem Wasif.

His photography has captured a variety of subjects including the Kusunda community in Nepal, A Migrant Polish Couple in United Kingdom and the tobacco industry in Bangladesh. In 2010 he started a project My City of Unheard Prayers, as an autobiographical work on his urban existence, while continuing his long-term project Tobacco Tale, on the tobacco industry of Bangladesh. Asif aims to work in this most challenging social environment with a compassionate approach towards the people. He participated in Chobimela VI, Bangladesh and Noorderlich Photo Festival, Netherlands in 2011.

Asif is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/sayed-asif-mahmud
sayed.asif.mahmud@gmail.com

by, Tanzim Wahab