World-renowned photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams once said “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Mirza Rajan Ferdous, an aspiring young man had always been drawn towards this and his fascination with cameras and lenses was something he decided to indulge himself in. Be it taking family pictures or a tea table adda with friends, he could not resist himself from capturing the precious moments with his 8-megapixel cellphone camera.
Mirza bought his first camera in 2008 while he was still studying and got active with the Photography Club at North South University. Since then, he knew that this was something he wanted to focus on and take it as a career. Over the years, he took his hobby and turned this into a part time career. Besides being the director of a reputed buying house in the city, Mirza in 2013, formalised his photography skills through Studio Cheesecake, making it into a full fledged photography and videography solution studio.
Starting from wedding snapshots to capturing corporate programmes in frames, Mirza now has a total of 19 team members working with him at Studio Cheesecake. Asking about his passion and his studio, he stated that moments should be captured and relived over and over again. It needs a lot of attention and precision. Photography, particularly for weddings over the last few years have become a gigantic platform for young photographers such as himself to test and develop their skills. He also thinks that family portraits are gaining more popularity and this is a field that needs more exploring. He remembers his younger days going to studios with his parents and sisters, with full ironed shirt, all tucked in, with well combed hair, and smiling in front of the camera from cheek to cheek. This was something absent for many years and greatly missed. However, he is simply too happy now that people have restarted to think in capturing prized moments in studios again. Studio Cheesecake focuses a lot on long term relationships, so it should not only be the wedding, but photographs should also include the bride and groom’s first child, the child’s birthday, candid moments and so on. It’s a recurring matter and you can frame a beautiful story or a tale out of this, as Mirza mentioned with a big smile on his face. He also strongly believes that a client will only come twice and more if they are largely satisfied. It was a great boost that led Studio Cheesecake bring in a wider horizon of solutions – wedding cinematography, pre and post wedding covers, pregnancy and baby photography. They even have moved on to corporate level photography services and event planning.
Sticking strong to their vision, Studio Cheesecake has now become one of the best providers of photography solutions in town. For more details on Mirza and Studio Cheesecake, you can visit their FB page at facebook.com/studiocheesecake.