Lets one minute – the magic of camera obscura !
Summery : A legend photographer Badsa mia calls the passer to come his roadside studio to delivers the urgent pass port photograph within one minute at Gulistan of Dhaka city Bangladesh during 50 years .
Description: Badsa mia a photographer passport photographer serves the urgent passport photographs to the customer meeting up their requirements of PP in different official purposes. This legend street photographer sets his mobile studio in early 60 named “Studio Sheema” in the roadside at gulistan area of Dhaka city Bangladesh using camera obscura – locally called field camera or minute camera.
He inherit this camera and photography from his father who was also a minute photographer and served pp and family photo by calling home to home of solvent people in early 1940.
After discovering the digital photography and its most popularization in Bangladesh after 2000 the studio Sheema with conventional photography ( silver halide process) losses the business . Once he became bound to stop the studio and starts the telephone calling business (Taka 3/ per call) which was stopped within some years by the aggression of mobile telephonic technology . Once he uprooted from his loving place where his studio Sheema was situated . Finally I guess that he was in death ill bed in his slum but nobody know his address . God bless this legend photo artist Badsa Mia .
We are going to celebrates the 176th years of discovering photography in 19 August 2015.lot of radical changes in photographic technology and the photographic process within this time .Silver halide converted to most modern digital process . But photography and the creator remain unchanged for ever . that is the passion for photographic community to remember our glorious past like the minute photo artist Badsa Mia .
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