Lonesomeness and alienation and the use of drugs to escape from reality is a kind of universal story where people let themselves feel that there is no place in the earth that they are going to, no one to meet and the surroundings too dead from dreaming. The drugs distort the perceptions; give the feelings of insight and of being disconnected from the world around. It is a world blended with colors and colorlessness. It’s a trip to see, hear and feel that do not exists.
During my subtle teen years, I arrived in the capital city Dhaka, straight from my village where I spend all my childhood. The maddening crowd of this city sucked me down; I could see how it is filling me up with emptiness and a sense of alienation that I was unfamiliar with. Depression and confusion took a hold in me, left me blindly here to stand in this pitiless city, to be wandering in the dark lanes of glittering city. The story of abusing me with drugs begins from here, as I was ready to go anywhere, I was ready for to fade in my own parade. This is my story where nothing else mattered, but the feeling of lightness, which could fly me away from the weight of the city like fallen leaves of trees from my childhood village. Like the `Tambourine man’, Bob Dylan sings…
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to. ……………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………….
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin’.
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.
Yes, the `Tambourine Man’ took me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time, far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Debasish Shom born in 1979 at the southern part of Bangladesh. After completing a three years course in photography in South Asian Institute of Photography- Pathshala, he started his photographic career in a fashion magazine. Currently he is working as a freelance photographer and as a tutor in South Asian Institute of Photography- Pathshala.
To him, photography is the interpretation of his psychological and emotional thoughts- a medium to express the emotion in the relationship with all belongings. And the images are belongings of alternative expressions and undiscovered realities.
