Verisimilitude, which is explained as ‘the appearance of being true or real’, according to the Oxford dictionary, is what Fahim Chowdhury has dexterously achieved in his portrait series done during the Covid crisis. Two years of uncertain existence as a freelancer made the artist look for an alternative to sitting close to a person and try a good likeness.



A good likeness is the starting point for Fahim. He explores the technique of verisimilitude in his attempt to continue his passion for capturing personalities and their mute expression. During the pandemic, in the changed circumstance, he used the digital means to get in touch with people he knew and used photographs they made available to him as his only reference to develop the current series.