Article
The Storyteller: Observations on Murtada Bulbul’s ‘Swineherders’
Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development
(2013)
Abstract
This review engages Murtada Bulbul's series of photographs of Bangladeshi swineherders (published in this issue), casting the photographer's treatment as that of a storyteller. On one hand, this treatment suggests the importance of visual-cultural forms for the very legibility of human rights. On the other hand, Bulbul's pictures can teach us something about what it means to live a "bare life," that is, to live at the edges of the human community.
Keywords
- photography,
- swineherders,
- Bangladesh
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Citation Information
Sharon Sliwinski. "The Storyteller: Observations on Murtada Bulbul’s ‘Swineherders’" Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development Vol. 4 Iss. 1 (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sharon_sliwinski/3/