Overview participating exhibitions
Terra Cognita - Untamed
2012
Terra Cognita - Untamed
Sarker Protick
Protick Sarker
The river gives and takes. When the monsoon comes, it swells and swallows whole villages. Anything and everything is carried away with it – from gigantic, holy trees to ordinary garbage. Protick Sarker investigates life along the river, life that is totally dependent on the water, but is equally threatened by it.
Biography
Protick Sarker (Bangladesh, 1986) studied photography at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy. After participating in various workshops with famous photographers like Munem Wasif, Laurence Leblanc and Abir Abdullah, in 2010 he received a grant from the American State Department to study at the University of Virginia. He has also taken the documentary photography programme at the University van Gloucestershire in England.