Park Life by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

“Documentary photographers are like visual sociologists,” says Mohammad Rakibul Hasan (b. 1977, Dhaka), a Bangladeshi film school graduate who in 2002 started making photographs. His essay Park Life was made in Suhrawardy Udyan, a historic park in Dhaka formerly used as a military clubhouse and horseracing course. A popular meeting place for locals, this park is also a roofless home and place of business for some. Aware of the growing influence of fine art practices on photography, he summarises the virtues of documentary photography as “honesty, truthfulness and patience.”