Living with the tides - The Sundarbans

‘Living With The Tides’ is a project with the photographs from the Sundarbans. I had always been viscerally influenced by the Sundarbans, its mysteries and splendors. It is the world’s largest contiguous mangrove ecosystem shared by Bangladesh and India in the Ganges Delta.

There is something inexplicably awe-inspiring about this deep mangrove swamps like they exist in a time before the advent of mankind. The physical experience of going by the maze of rivers and creeks of this forest puts one in a different world - the mangroves’s secretive splendor unfolds serene wilderness. The eerie and captivating sensation that time has slowed down and that the forest and everything within it exists in a different state. The tides rise and fall periodically inundating all of the land. The life of the inhabitants in this unique ecosystem is tuned to accept a slowing of time and a shift in perception.

Photographs, editing, sequencing: Laila Nahar / Book Concept and Book design: Laila Nahar - / Texts: Laila Nahar / Language: English / First Edition of 15 Hand-bound copies in Jan, 2024 /