Navid Hasnain is an architect, designer & photographer based in Dhaka; has a thing for
Sardonic Humour, 
Watermelon 🍉, 
Mountain peaks,
Altocumulus clouds,meanwhile being the jack of Loudworks, Rndm, and
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Listening to What Remains
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2026

Publication Design

Listening to What Remains begins from the idea that absence can take form- something shaped by time, memory, and the distortions of documentation. The publication approaches absence not as a void, but as a constructed artifact. It draws from archival photographs of the Kaptai and Rangamati region, preserved at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, including a 1927 series by the German explorer and trader Julius Konietzko. These images are placed in dialogue with present-day photographs of the same terrain.

The book’s structure performs its own critique. Conventional sequencing is overturned: interior pages surface as the cover, while the cover is displaced inward. This inversion turns the object into a site of disruption. Fragments of colonial records appear on semi-transparent tracing paper, layered into a dense exterior shell. Through this accumulation, images blur into ghostly impressions, undermining the authority of the archival gaze and rendering its history only partially legible.

Inside, contemporary views of the Kaptai, Rangamati landscape are paired with restrained, poetic reflections on memory, erasure, and the lingering influence of Western systems of seeing and knowing. Past and present are held in uneasy proximity, creating a space where perception itself feels unstable.

Bound by a single string and without stitching, the book resists permanence and conventional function. It exists not as a fixed volume, but as a fragile, provisional artifact - an unfinished form that gestures toward the fugitive nature of perception, where absence is encountered through the layered friction between archive and lived landscape.

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