the story of "Ideas R Bulletproof"....
where the term(s) came from....
the term(s) "Ideas are bulletproof" came from a movie named "V for Vendetta" where the chief character utters these words while heavily wounded, but before he kills the villain.... he died, but his ideas lived on through his followers....
who we are....
we're a husband and wife photography team based out of Dhaka, Bangladesh..... Aniqa is the creative director, and Sharif is the photographer....we aim to show our countrymen what family moments they are missing today..... we took the challenge of creating a type of photography market here in Bangladesh that most people are not even aware of.... we do not just want to take photos of people..... we want to capture moments and give an experience to people.... an experience they will talk about for decades.... we are not a typical photography studio.....
how it all started....
me (Sharif) had been a travel photographer and blogger for the last seven years, and she (Aniqa) had been a homemaker for the last six years..... our real inspiration behind this specific venture came around four-and-a-half years ago from the birth of our daughter Lamisa.... this ground-breaking event provided a different dimension to our photography.... this provided not just the motivation to document the most transient part of Lamisa's childhood, but also opened up the opportunity to learn portrait photography, especially the art of lighting.... a huge amount of study and practice provided us the technical knowhow needed to think ahead.... we were also lucky enough to be blessed with a child like Lamisa, who constantly provided us an excuse to shoot photos.... but to make sure that this regular shoot didn't get boring over time, we decided to innovate.... regular brainstorming ensued and that resulted in images that we only dreamed about.... the images had always been there, we just needed to dig them out....
my passion for photography took over when my long-standing corporate job started to take the life away from me.... my mind started to question whether my private life was being eaten by the very job that was supposed to help me sustain....ideas rolled; plans unfolded; decisions stamped.... and here we are.... to prove a point or two....
our uniqueness.....
our edge is our ideas..... we do not want two photoshoots to look the same.... and to make sure of that, we customise our ideas based on the people we would do the photos for.... their characters and relationship stories would give us the ideas to make the photos stand out of the crowd....we talk to our clients first, which help us to cook the ideas....
if you're bored watching the same types of family photographs and looking for a break, you've come to the right place....
update(s).....
we have evolved since we started this business venture.... we have diversified our efforts and at the same time, developed our core competencies....
a) blogging: we are still the blogger that we always had been, but now, with more vigour.... though we haven't maintained our travel blog for long, we kept up with the portrait lighting blog; developed another blog in Wordpress to talk about photography in general where we have several contributors; we also kept up the updates on our 'daily' (well, almost) blog at Tumblr.....
b) workshops: we added training ventures to our portfolio as we had received many requests for photography and lighting workshops..... updates on Idea Workshops would be found here.....we're also involved with organisations like Through the Lens: Bangladesh and Counter Foto in the photography-related workshop and training ventures.....
c) fine art prints: we brought all our fine art travel photography under one banner - Desherchobi Prints.... and you can get updates on those here.....
d) food photography: this is our latest venture.... we're currently developing this venture (Dhakai Menu) along with some of our core competencies.... to get updates on this, please visit this link....
e) Facebook: we would love to have you with us as we put regular updates our work in Facebook.... you can find updates on our portrait photography (Ideas_R_Bulletproof) venture here.... and our food photography (Dhakai Menu) venture here....
f) Twitter: you can follow us on Twitter to get regular updates on our activities....
g) Youtube: we started a video podcast series in Youtube, which hasn't seen a lotta updates since around early 2013.... but we hope to resume this series as we see fit....
h) commercial photography: this is a new venture of ours..... not publishing any link right now.... but anyone interested can contact us at: +880-1711-055524
i) consultancy: this is one of our oldest competencies..... concentration area is marketing research.... we do research design, advise clients based on acquired data and also work with organisations and professionals to develop human resources in the field of marketing research..... again, not posting any link right now....but anyone interested can contact us at: +880-1711-055524
where the term(s) came from....
the term(s) "Ideas are bulletproof" came from a movie named "V for Vendetta" where the chief character utters these words while heavily wounded, but before he kills the villain.... he died, but his ideas lived on through his followers....
who we are....
we're a husband and wife photography team based out of Dhaka, Bangladesh..... Aniqa is the creative director, and Sharif is the photographer....we aim to show our countrymen what family moments they are missing today..... we took the challenge of creating a type of photography market here in Bangladesh that most people are not even aware of.... we do not just want to take photos of people..... we want to capture moments and give an experience to people.... an experience they will talk about for decades.... we are not a typical photography studio.....
how it all started....
me (Sharif) had been a travel photographer and blogger for the last seven years, and she (Aniqa) had been a homemaker for the last six years..... our real inspiration behind this specific venture came around four-and-a-half years ago from the birth of our daughter Lamisa.... this ground-breaking event provided a different dimension to our photography.... this provided not just the motivation to document the most transient part of Lamisa's childhood, but also opened up the opportunity to learn portrait photography, especially the art of lighting.... a huge amount of study and practice provided us the technical knowhow needed to think ahead.... we were also lucky enough to be blessed with a child like Lamisa, who constantly provided us an excuse to shoot photos.... but to make sure that this regular shoot didn't get boring over time, we decided to innovate.... regular brainstorming ensued and that resulted in images that we only dreamed about.... the images had always been there, we just needed to dig them out....
my passion for photography took over when my long-standing corporate job started to take the life away from me.... my mind started to question whether my private life was being eaten by the very job that was supposed to help me sustain....ideas rolled; plans unfolded; decisions stamped.... and here we are.... to prove a point or two....
our uniqueness.....
our edge is our ideas..... we do not want two photoshoots to look the same.... and to make sure of that, we customise our ideas based on the people we would do the photos for.... their characters and relationship stories would give us the ideas to make the photos stand out of the crowd....we talk to our clients first, which help us to cook the ideas....
if you're bored watching the same types of family photographs and looking for a break, you've come to the right place....
update(s).....
we have evolved since we started this business venture.... we have diversified our efforts and at the same time, developed our core competencies....
a) blogging: we are still the blogger that we always had been, but now, with more vigour.... though we haven't maintained our travel blog for long, we kept up with the portrait lighting blog; developed another blog in Wordpress to talk about photography in general where we have several contributors; we also kept up the updates on our 'daily' (well, almost) blog at Tumblr.....
b) workshops: we added training ventures to our portfolio as we had received many requests for photography and lighting workshops..... updates on Idea Workshops would be found here.....we're also involved with organisations like Through the Lens: Bangladesh and Counter Foto in the photography-related workshop and training ventures.....
c) fine art prints: we brought all our fine art travel photography under one banner - Desherchobi Prints.... and you can get updates on those here.....
d) food photography: this is our latest venture.... we're currently developing this venture (Dhakai Menu) along with some of our core competencies.... to get updates on this, please visit this link....
e) Facebook: we would love to have you with us as we put regular updates our work in Facebook.... you can find updates on our portrait photography (Ideas_R_Bulletproof) venture here.... and our food photography (Dhakai Menu) venture here....
f) Twitter: you can follow us on Twitter to get regular updates on our activities....
g) Youtube: we started a video podcast series in Youtube, which hasn't seen a lotta updates since around early 2013.... but we hope to resume this series as we see fit....
h) commercial photography: this is a new venture of ours..... not publishing any link right now.... but anyone interested can contact us at: +880-1711-055524
i) consultancy: this is one of our oldest competencies..... concentration area is marketing research.... we do research design, advise clients based on acquired data and also work with organisations and professionals to develop human resources in the field of marketing research..... again, not posting any link right now....but anyone interested can contact us at: +880-1711-055524
