Category: Photography
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Life in the storm
The struggle of the will and body against the sea, fueled by the determination not to go hungry the next day. Step by each agonizing step, steadying the nets and ploughing through the waves as the sea recedes. This is the everyday life of the five thousand families on the coast in Kuakata who makes…
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Building the pyramids
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is like an island surrounded by fire. Hundreds of tall chimneys of the brick klins pouring grey smoke in the air evokes a feel of Mordor with smoke and heat all around. There are millions of bricks burned here to serve the rapidly growing demand of urbanization and industrialization of…
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Where has our river gone?
সর্বনাশা পদ্মা নদী তোর কাছে শুধাই বল আমারে তোর কি রে আর কুল কিনারা নাই, কুল কিনারা নাই ও নদীর কুল কিনারা নাই।। পাড়ির আশায় তাড়াতাড়ি সকাল বেলা ধরলাম পাড়ি আমার দিন যে গেল সন্ধ্যা হলো তবু না কুল পাই।। পদ্মারে তোর তুফান দেইখা পরান কাঁপে ডরে ফেইলা আমায় মারিসনা তোর সর্বনাশা ঝড়ে।। একে আমার…
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Heaven and Kings
The people of Toraja, a beautiful mountainous land in South Sulawesi, believe their ancestors came down from heaven using stairs. It is here in the mountains complicated and expensive ceremonies sustain many aspects of prehistoric megalithic culture that cannot be experienced anywhere else in the world. For the Toraja people, life and death are as much intertwined…
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Bleeding Red: Charak
Who can say what is the truth about man and God? Who can sanctify which path is right or wrong? All believers are promised something but is it only the allure of the promise that sustains faith? Blood that courses through the veins are red. It is very symbolic – this color that sustains our…