Mou Aysha

I have always loved people and have always wanted to learn about them from up close. People, their culture, their experiences, always fascinated me since my childhood. I found out that photography gives me opportunities to go and learn about people and their journeys. Since childhood, I have been fascinated with people and their faces. I grow up in the northern part of Bangladesh and from a young age, I saw a lot of people from the islands. Their faces were always different from other people I had seen. They were burnt with the sun, had a lot of scratches on their face and their eyes were red. All those faces grabbed my attention as a child, one of my main reasons to become a photographer was to capture those incredible faces and bring more light to them. I wanted to share their beautiful and unique faces with others. As I said before I have a special affection for portraits and have, therefore, produced an extensive series of them. Genuine smiles, emotions and people’s stories attract me the most. I want to capture the purest of emotions in my photographs. I also occasionally feel inspired by other subjects and compositions and try not to limit my creative instincts. I also do street life and travel photography. I seek to discover and photograph that which is unseen by me or others, therefore, I find myself becoming an explorer with a powerful desire to travel. During and after my studies at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, graduating with a Masters in Applied English Linguistics, I started photography which became a growing passion. I have been following the photography workshops and courses at First Light Institute of Photography since 2014 in Dhaka. I am currently employed as the administrator at this non-profit institute and I’m also involved as a volunteer for social and humanitarian projects of First Light Institute. Now I dedicate myself to capturing the best moments of life as I see and feel them. I believe that with empathy, compassion, and love, we can change the world for the better as artists. I am a positive person who sees beauty in everything.