February 25th
Yesterday, my first visit out to a village with Grameen, was a whirlwind. As we were headed back my coordinator Morshad got a call from Grameen saying that there was some military conflict in Dhaka and that he needed to bring the westerner (me) back to the hotel asap. So I was dropped back at Grand Prince at about 3:30pm yesterday and since have watched the conflict unfold. Luckily it appears to be nearing an end, but we are still confined to the hotel, although I did a bit of grocery 'supply' shopping earlier in a grocery store down the street with woman who works for Grameen and will be traveling with me next week.
Now, in the hotel I am working over my photographs and my whirlwind day and thinking about how it actually went. Intense. I was wonderfully received in the village I went to, but watched by almost everyone who lives there. On all the shoots I set up my tripod and behind me hovering so close they often got into the images were about 20 or so different people from the village, watching, giggling, a few of the little boys started going 'beep' 'beep beep' mimicking my camera shutter noise.
Now, returning and looking at the photographs I am pleased with some of them, but have a lot of thinking and trying out to do to find the language for how I want to do this project, how I want to work with people to represent them in photographs. Below are two diptychs, because one thing I am realizing is that a single images feels like it fails to convey enough complexity, how the scene was, in so many ways, I don't know if two are much better than one, but I would love to hear feedback on how people find these images.
I have so much more to write, but am too antsy, as I have been indoors pretty much for the last 30 hours. ikes. Will write more eloquently soon I promise!
Using multiple photographs can work well to give life to a scene, since a single image can be too static and limited. Having more than two could also be effective.
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