This photo-essay by Robert Bailey and the accompanying text by Naeem Mohaiemen is a long time coming. One delay or another, caused by some mystical external or internal force, prevented me from posting this to Tiffinbox back in August 2006. [Robert and Naeem – Sorry!]
These images have been exhibited at the Asia Society and the text and some of the images have also appeared in the terrific Nepali progressive publication, Himal.
Robert Bailey is a freelance documentary and commercial photographer living in New York City. His assignments have taken him to locations across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. He has photographed extensively in Bangladesh, India , Nepal, and Pakistan and his work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows across the United States. His style of photography has led him to clients such as Unicef, Merck, City Harvest, and United Airlines. Robert?s work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, Today Show, NBC NIghtly News, and at the Sundance Film Festival. He has lectured abroad and also here in New York at the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts. Robert will be teaching photography this fall semester at Ohio Northern University.
Naeem Mohaiemen is a filmmaker and media activist. He is director of VISIBLE COLLECTIVE, an artist-activist collective that works on film-art interventions on migrant impulses, hyphenated identities and post 9/11 security panic. Project excerpts have shown widely, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His film on impact of image politics on struggles inside political Islam, MUSLIMS OR HERETICS, screened at the British House of Lords. His essays include the forthcoming “Hip Hop's Islamic Connection” (Sound Unbound, MIT Press, DJ Spooky ed.), ?Invisible Migrants? (Men of the Global South, Zed Books, Adam Jones ed.), “Shiraj Sikder: Terrorists, Guerillas or Icons” (Sarai Reader, RAQS Collective ed.), and “Why Mahmud Can't Be a Pilot” (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Matt Bernstein ed.)
Please click the link below to read Naeem's story about this enigmatic industry.
