Noufel Sharif Sojol
Noufel is an artist, educator, and architect, currently based in Bangladesh. His interdisciplinary practice bridges the fields of art and architecture. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Integrated Media from the School of Art and Design at Ohio University, where he also served as an Instructor of Record for a year. With a foundational training in architecture, Noufel approaches his artistic work through a lens shaped by stories, material culture, and phenomenology. His practice investigates nostalgia, memory, mental mapping, and the subtle interplay between the built environment and the sensory elements that construct a sense of home.
Currently, as an adjunct faculty member at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), he teaches photography to emerging architects and designers. Since 2016, he has worked as a professional architectural photographer, producing images that examine the dynamic relationships among space, light, and human interaction. Over the years, he has collaborated with prominent architects and designers across Bangladesh, India, and the United States.
His photographs have been widely published and featured in books, magazines, and online platforms both nationally and internationally. Through his sustained commitment to visual storytelling, Sharif continues to explore and expand the dialogue between architecture and photography, offering nuanced reflections on the environments we inhabit and the memories they hold.
