Bound & Becoming is an exploration of womanhood in Bangladesh, its inherited restrictions, unspoken expectations, and the quiet revolutions that take place within and around them. Through self-portraiture, I embody the tensions between tradition and transformation, using my own body as both subject and symbol. Each image is constructed with deliberate symbolism and light, mapping the ways a woman’s identity is shaped, confined, and yet capable of expansion. The “bound” speaks to the forces, cultural, familial, and societal, that seek to define a woman before she can define herself. The “becoming” is the act of resisting and reshaping those definitions, of growing into a self that is chosen rather than assigned. This work is not only personal but collective. It draws from my own experiences as a woman in Bangladeshi society while resonating with the broader, universal struggle of navigating inherited roles and personal agency. In each frame, I reclaim space, physical, emotional, and symbolic, turning the act of self-representation into an act of defiance and self-definition. Through these portraits, I invite viewers to witness both the weight of what is carried and the liberation of what is shed, to see a woman not as a static role but as an evolving force, bound yet always becoming.
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