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the publications on these occasions some realistic and creative photographs were
included. In the important exhibition titled ‘The Voice of the Girl Child’ initiated by Drik
with the assistance of the Danish Save the Children in 1991 many creative photographs
were included. An album entitled Rights and Reality showing the actual situation and
reality of children, child labor, the multidimensional involvement of children in various
aspects of social life was published in 1992 with the assistance of the Bangladesh Child
Rights Forum and Drik Picture Library featuring photographs of various photographers.
In the album titled We are Children, We have Rights (1995) published by UNICEF, the
involvement of children in different professions and painful labor found expression
through the photographs of Shehzad Noorani. Photojournalist Azizur Rahim Peu has
documented child labor and children involved in risky labor. A research-oriented book on
photography on the rootless children of the country was published by the European
Union entitled Street Children (1999). Children collected from all over the country are
involved in fish industry centered labor in Dublar Char, in the southern most regions of
the Sundarbans. Dubla Dulabhanga, Forced Labour in Fishing Industry (2002) was
published depicting their labor in photographs by Mahmud. Enam Ul Haque has
presented the various associations of child life in Bangladesh, their joys, sorrows,
emotions, labor and surroundings from a different perspective in his colored album
Nishpap Bangladesh (2004). Besides, the child has been pictured in various publications
and exhibitions of different organizations including the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. In
the UNICEF publication of 1999, Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh, the health, education,
profession, marriage-reproduction etc. issues of girl children have been focused in
photography by Shehzad Noorani, Anwar Hossain, Shafiqul Alam Kiron, Naser
Siddique. In the album Britta (December 2003) published by MAP Agency of
Photography pictures of girl children have been featured.
6.5 Women’s Life
fig. 10.37 Mermaids,
winning Yacolt Prize in Many photographers have worked on women of Bangladesh, women’s labor, abuse,
ACCU competition, the deprivation and neglect of their health, education and social rights. The life and
1980, photograph realities of sex workers in the economic and social circle and its various aspects have
Anwar Hossain, been the subject of many including Shehzad Noorani, Dr. Shahidul Alam, GMB
© Anwar Hossain Akash, Abeer Abdullah. The album Karme Nari Sangrame Nari (2004) published on
the initiative of ‘Karmajibi Nari’
with color photographs of various
photographers of the country
featuring women’s notable
participation in the changed
economical and social context of
the country. Anwar Hossain’s
Women album features the glowing
presence of the common women in
the surroundings, in nature or close
to reality (fig. 10.37).