South Asian Digital Art Archive

Bloody July in Bangladesh

Produced during the People’s Uprising in Bangladesh, July 2024, this image by Debashish Chakrabarty captures the raw intensity of a nation in flux. Created amid mass mobilizations and civil resistance, the work is not just a visual record but also a symbolic echo of collective struggle and hope. Chakrabarty channels the urgency of the moment through his practice, weaving together the personal and the political. The image reflects both the fragility and resilience of ordinary citizens standing against systemic inequities, transforming protest into art, and art into testimony. In doing so, it becomes part of a larger cultural archive of resistance—one where creativity documents dissent and reimagines futures beyond crisis.

 

Year Published

2024

Type of Art

Digital Illustration

Theme

Technology & Power
Human Rights

Languages

Bangla, English

Softwares Used

Procreate, Adobe Photoshop

Audience

Everyone

Debashish Chakrabarty

Debashish Chakrabarty

Bangladesh

Debashish Chakrabarty is a Bangladeshi visual artist and author based in Dhaka, whose work interweaves art, science, and social inquiry. A photography graduate of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, his practice examines power structures, state mechanisms, and civil imagination through optical, photographic, and drawing techniques. Debashish explores the plasticity of the human mind using image-based narratives that probe human conditions and political realities. His work has been showcased internationally—across Asia, North America, and Europe—including the Delhi Photo Festival, New York’s Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh, Chobi Mela, Serendipity Arts Festival, Berlin’s Connections, and exhibitions in Cambridge, Germany, and Dhaka. Recent solo work centers on public uprisings and cultural memory in Bangladesh.

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