User:Faysal Zaman/sandbox

Submission declined on 29 May 2025 by ToadetteEdit (talk).

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Declined by ToadetteEdit 2 months ago. Last edited by ToadetteEdit 2 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

Resubmit

Please note that if the issues are not fixed, the draft will be declined again.

Sumi Anjuman

Sumi Anjuman (born on 1st January, 1989) is a visual artist from Bangladesh known for her deeply political and poetic engagement with gender, memory, and resistance. Her artistic practice navigates the complex terrain of Bangladesh’s conservative Muslim socio-cultural framework, addressing the lived realities of women and gender-divergent communities through photography-based visual storytelling. Drawing from personal and collective experiences, Anjuman explores themes of gender-specific oppression and healing, positioning her work as a form of nonviolent protest and quiet resistance. Central to her practice is a distinctive documentary approach she terms “healing through creation”, which emphasizes collaboration with subjects to generate layered, time-transcending narratives. Her visual language incorporates staged photography, hand-stitching, textual elements, moving images, re-photographic techniques, and archival materials to confront dominant narratives and open space for alternative ways of seeing and remembering.

Anjuman is currently based in Dhaka, where she teaches at Counter Foto – A Centre for Visual Art. She earned her Master’s degree in Photography & Society from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands, and previously completed a three-year professional diploma in photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka.

Her work continues to engage with intergenerational trauma, feminist resistance, and the transformative potential of image-making in postcolonial South Asia.

Grants & Awards

• 2025 - One of the participants in the World Press Photo - Joop Swart Masterclass

• 2023 - One of the 4 finalists of the '2022 W. Eugene Smith Student Grant

• 2022 - One of the 4 Laureates of Carte Blanche Students 2022, co-organized by Paris Photo

• 2021 – Recipients of ‘Seed Awards’ of Prince Claus Fund

• 2020 - Winner in the Series category – ‘Pride Photo 2020’, Curiosity: The Compass to Our Passions

• 2020 – Selected as one of ‘Ones to Watch’ of British Journal of Photography

• 2020 – Selected as 'Top Photography Graduates to Watch’ of PHmuseum

• 2020 – Finalist for ‘The Alexia 2020 Student Grant’

• 2020 - OUC Workshop (International Documentary Workshop) in Nepal

Exhibitions

• 2025 - 'Mama' by Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany

• 2024 - FORMAT Festival, Leicester, UK

• 2024 - 10 SUR 10 by Fisheye Gallery, Arles, France

• 2024 – Solo Exhibition, titled ‘Wounds Healed, Tales Etched / দাগ’, presented by Sammlung Philara in Düsseldorf, Germany as part of the Düsseldorf photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media.

• 2024 – Encounters Of Young International Photography, Villa Perochon - CACP, Niort, France

• 2023 – Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh

• 2022 - Laureates of Carte Blanche Students 2022, co-organized by Paris Photo, France

• 2021 - ‘Pride Photo 2020’, Curiosity: The Compass to Our Passions, The Netherlands

• 2021 - Chobi Mela - ‘Shunno’, Bangladesh

• 2021 - ‘The Makeable Mind’, the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, The Netherlands

External links