A visual anthropology memoir reflecting on Japanese tea ceremony, photography, memory, and attention. Drawing on photographs made during years in Hiroshima, this essay explores ritual, cultural learning, and the relevance of slowing down in the age of AI.
A personal and anthropological reflection on Shoji Ueda, the Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, Mount Daisen, friendship, memory, and photography in rural Japan. Part I: The Road to Shoji Ueda Some journeys begin long before we arrive at our destination. In the summer of 2015, I travelled across rural western Japan with three Japanese friends….
Following the Ramisa protests in Dhaka, this essay explores how grief moved across roads, screens, bodies, and memory to produce new forms of public life. Through ethnography, photography, and digital archives, it proposes the concept of Witnessing Sociality to understand how people become connected through collective acts of visibility and moral attention.
A photograph from my ongoing visual project In Conversation with Dhaka, The Carrier has been selected as a LensCulture Editors’ Pick in the Street Photography Awards 2026. The image explores labor, movement, and the symbolic dimensions hidden within everyday urban life in Dhaka.
Through photography, anthropology, and visual criticism, this essay explores Mubtasim Alvee’s debut solo exhibition A Shared Condition as an atmosphere of emotional proximity and contemporary isolation in urban Bangladesh.