Sarker Protick practises a form of photography based on dedicated studies of subjects connected to environmental histories and altering landscapes. As a teacher, curator and multidisciplinary artist, Protick has contributed to building poetic visual memories of Bengal, leading him to diverse parts of Bangladesh and across its border to India.

Protick’s long-term engagement with the waterways of the Padma River is a preoccupation that has spanned his career. Created over 13 years, his ongoing ‘লীন, Of River and Lost Lands’ series of photographs chronicles a web of narratives across time and place to reveal what Protick describes as a ‘relationship of intimacy and ruthlessness between nature and humans on the margins’. Protick’s series bears witness to the immense transformations this mighty environment has the power to affect, and the devastation it can leave in its wake.