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When Dead Ships Travel #4, 2015, photographic digital print on archival rag fine art, 76 x 131 cm

Shumon Ahmed – “When dead ships travel”: Review by Shanay Jhaveri

Published on 29 October, 2015 on Frieze “The ship-breaking yards of South Asia – Gadani (Pakistan), Alang (India) and Baro Aulia (Bangladesh) – are not wanting for attention from artists, from either the region or the West. Photographers including Edward …

Shumon Ahmed,‘When dead ships travel 5’, 2015

UNMISSABLE ART SHOWS – Deepanjana Pal

Posted on 28 October, 2015 on The Daily Pao When Dead Ships Travel at Project 88 Ship-breaking yards are not tranquil, dreamy places. In Bangladeshi artist Shumon Ahmed’s photographs, however, they’re transformed. Ahmed first visited Baro Aulia, one of the …

Shumon Ahmed, 'When dead ships travel", installation view

FINAL VOYAGES – Pooja Pillai

Published on 20 October, 2015 in The Indian Express “Steeped in melancholy, Shumon Ahmed’s photographic prints of the ship-breaking industry in the Chittagong district’s Baro Aulia have an undeniable impact. The broken and rusted ruins of once-imposing freighters and tankers …

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SHUMON AHMED: SHIPWRECK SHOCK – Payal Khandelwal

Published on 14 October, 2015 in Open Magazine “The monstrous presence of the decaying, dying ships on the shores of Chittagong in Bangladesh appear in sharp contrast to the people working there who seem like Lilliputians in front of the …

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Haunting Analogue Photographs of Ship Graveyards Speak to the Afterlife of Technology – Deepika Sorabjee

Posted on 6 October, 2015 on ArtSlant “How do objects “end” their “lives”? Where do they go to die? How does an object have this presence beyond the monumental, a soul that is passing through time and place? Can both …

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