Foreign Correspondence is a podcast that brings you hour-long interviews with journalists around the world hosted by Jake Spring.
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Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
The Feel Good Episode of the Year! Bangladeshi photographer Ismail Ferdous (IG: ismailferdous) went from borrowing money to pay for a camera to his first paid project being published in the New Yorker. He lays out his philosophy of seeking the work that speaks to him and working on personal projects without thinking of where it will be published. Now a freelancer in New York City, he’s been published in a slew of big name publications and regularly works for National Geographic. We also discuss his experience with catching COVID-19.
Countries featured: Bangladesh, Syria, Turkey, United States
Publications featured: National Geographic, New Yorker, AP, New York Times, Instagram
Ismail discusses photographing the George Floyd BLM protests (4:34), his experience falling sick with COVID-19 (8:25), growing up in Bangladesh and discovering photography (16:16), his family’s eventual acceptance of his job as a photographer (26:04), his work on the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza sweatshop (31:26), stories that never came together on HIV patients in Bangladesh and Syrian refugees (48:07), the rigorous process that is doing a story for NatGeo (54:10) and the lightning round (1:05:35).
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Ismail’s work on climate change for New Yorker - https://bit.ly/2WY7ZSx
Ismail’s documentary The Deadly Cost of Fashion in New York Times - https://nyti.ms/2CONlxd
After Rana Plaza on Instagram - https://bit.ly/2WX4UCf
After Rana Plaza website - https://bit.ly/39uMQ7K
His NatGeo story on South Asian Americans - https://on.natgeo.com/3hALfjj
NPR podcast Rough Translation - https://n.pr/2ZXvzRo
John Berger’s book Ways of Seeing - https://amzn.to/2CE7xSI
Satyajit Ray wiki bio - https://bit.ly/2WTFi9u
The Opiod Diaries in Time magazine - https://bit.ly/2BAJ2VW
The documentary War Photographer - https://bit.ly/2D1nXEl
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