thalith nasir
wanderings of a photographer based in new york city
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San Fermin at Brooklyn Steel
Winter 2019
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San Fermin at Brooklyn Steel
Winter 2019
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San Fermin at Brooklyn Steel
Spring 2017
NYC, NY -
Johnny Flynn at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Spring 2017
NYC, NY -
Earlier tonight at the rally against the “Muslim Ban” organized by the Yemeni American community who shutdown their businesses today in all 5 boroughs.
I’ll be expanding the focus of this project to include a greater diversity of portraits and stories.
(via everydayaliens)
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Maranon
Winter 2016
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Omar
What is home to you?
Home is where you sleep at night. I also think home is where you pay your taxes for at least 9 years. Done that. Home is where you don’t need a GPS to get around. If everywhere else you go you need Google Maps but the one place that you don’t need it? That’s home.(via everydayaliens)
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Nadir (Part 2)
I’ve told quite a few people who came here as immigrants that driving a taxi is not a goal. But you can use it to reach your own goal. If you can study here, that’s even better. Figure out a schedule that works for you and do both. Don’t think that you don’t have any value in America. You can do so many things here.
A friend of mine studied Environmental Science in Bangladesh which was a subject that had fewer opportunities there. When she came here she started working at a CVS. I told her that there is a lot more value in her work in the US than in Bangladesh. Did she really think that the Bangladeshi system is so bad that she had no value here? She talked to another friend who suggested her to take a course related to her field. She then found out that her skills were in demand. She was stuck for 2 years because she didn’t know where to go or who to talk to. A lot of immigrants are stuck in jobs in hotels, construction and driving taxis because there is no one to guide them.
(via everydayaliens)
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Nafiul
I had an image of America of being a really nice country. I thought we’d be rich and be living in luxury. But the picture is really different from back home. My sister had to abandon her studies in college in Bangladesh where she was studying English. She started working at a Dunkin’ Donuts which we really couldn’t imagine happening before. I also had to go to work for a while since my mom was sick when we arrived. She actually couldn’t find work for two and a half years.
(via everydayaliens)
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Farzana
Wherever I lived became home for me. When I was little, I lived in Kenya for a good 7 years where I went to middle school and everything. After that, I lived in Uzbekistan for a few years and that became home for me. When I went back to Bangladesh, it was for a brief 2 years but it became home for that period of time too.
Because of that I don’t think of myself as Bangladeshi. I’ve grown up in different cultures and communities. To me, I’m just kind of a citizen of the world—as cliched as that is—that’s how I think of myself. I don’t really identify with a Bangladeshi nationality if that makes sense. My parents are from there so obviously my ancestral roots are there but when I think of memories of home, memories of Bangladesh are not invoked, its mostly Kenya.
Farzana has lived in the US for 12 years.(via everydayaliens)
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