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25 images Created 18 May 2023

K M Asad Independent Documentary photographer Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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  • Firefighters try to extinguish a massive fire that broke out in the Bangabazar clothing market, in Dhaka, on 04 May 2023. Hundreds of clothes stores burnt to the ground in the fire, inducing a significant blow to businesses just before the Eid-ul Fitr Festival of 2023.
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  • A Rohingya woman holds her son after getting off a boat that arrived from Myanmar on the Shah Pori Dip Island, in Cox’s Bazar, on 14 September 2017. According to UNHCR, more than 742,000 Rohingya, including more than 400,000 children, fled to Bangladesh in the most recent exodus, which began on August 25, 2017.
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  • A woman performs "Dondi" - a Hindu ritual on the event of Chhath Puja in Kolkata, India, on 15 April 2017.
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  • Traditional body massage in Babu Ghat in Kolkata, India, on 12 February 2016.
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  • Because of the lack of food, wild elephants are forced out of the forest to eat their fill in the paddy fields of local farmers in  Sherpur, Bangladesh on 09 April 2022.
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  • Nepali soldiers stand guard in front of a ruined temple at Durbar Square following a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred on 25 April 2015 in Pashupatinath Kathmandu, Nepal on 30 April 2015.
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  • A broken statue of a God in a street following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the country on 25 April 2015 in Shanku area Kathmandu, Nepal, on 01 May 2015. 8’964 people were killed, more than 21’000 injured and hundreds of thousands of Nepalis lost their homes as entire villages were leveled to the ground by the massive earthquake.
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  • Nepali families await their relatives at the airport of Kathmandu, on 29 April 2015. Many Nepalis living abroad traveled back home after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the country on 25 April 2015.
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  • Asmat Ara is traumatized by the violence she experienced in Myanmar, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 06 September 2017. Together with her family she arrived in the Tenkhali refugee camp the night before. According to UNHCR, more than 742,000 Rohingya, including more than 400,000 children, fled to Bangladesh in the most recent exodus, which began on August 25, 2017. In Myanmar, the Rohingya have faced decades of statelessness, discrimination, and targeted violence.
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  • A boy celebrates Holi, the festival of colors, in Nandgaon, India, on 28 February 2015. The Holi festival is held on the full moon day in the month of Phalguna and celebrates the beginning of spring and the victory of good over evil.
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  • Oindrila with her son poses for a picture in the coastal hanging village Kalabogi where people are heavily affected by climate change, in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, on 11 February 2020. Oindrila had to move her house four times in the past years because of flooding and erosion.
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  • In the old town of Jodhpur, also known as “blue city”, mesmerizing shades of blue surround everyday life, in Rajasthan, on 05 December 2013. Jodhpur is located on the edge of the Thar Desert and was once the capital of a princely state. The city’s medieval quarter, surrounded by a ten-kilometer wall, is a labyrinth of alleyways, many of them just wide enough for a person or a cow to pass. The blue colors of the houses originally indicated the homes of the upper-caste Brahmins, designated as the priestly caste and the custodians of the written word.
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  • A tailor shop in Jodhpur, also known as the “blue city”, in Rajasthan, India, on 28 February 2015. The blue colors of the houses originally indicated the homes of the Brahmins, designated as the priestly caste and the custodians of the written word in Hindu society.
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  • Boats are the only mode of transportation for the people living on Manpura island at the mouth of the Meghna River, in Bhola, Bangladesh, on 06 September 2018 Bangladesh. The Bhola District of has been called the “ground zero” for climate-change in Bangladesh because of the severe erosion by rivers and seas.
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  • Hundreds of Rohingya cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape the violence in Myanmar, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on 19 September 2017. According to UNHCR, more than 742,000 Rohingya, including more than 400,000 children, have fled to Bangladesh in the latest exodus, which began on August 25, 2017. This large-scale movement of Rohingya refugees followed a military campaign of massive armed attacks, violence, and severe human rights violations against the Rohingya.
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  • Angelina Jolie, US actress and Special Envoy of the UNHCR, at a press conference after her visit to the Kutupalong refugee camp, in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 02 May 2019.
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  • An old resident of the Guda Vishnoi village near Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, India, on 06 December 2013.
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  • A boy performs as the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha, in Shatkhira, Bangladesh, on 12 April 2023. Ganesha is widely honored as the remover of obstacles and the bringer of good luck. He is also the deity of wisdom, intellect, and new beginnings. On the occasion of Charak Puja, a traditional Hindu folk festival celebrated only in a few parts of Bangladesh on the day before the Bangla New Year, children play various gods to fight the evil, bring prosperity to their society, and drive away the sorrow, pain, and suffering of the past year.
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  • A woman collects her belongings after Cyclone Mocha had hit ashore on the Shah Porir Island, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on 15 May 2023.
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  • A boy rides on a carousel in the middle of a garbage dump on the banks of the Buriganga river, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 24 January 2023. Immense quantities of industrial waste, sewage, and plastic from the most densely populated city in the world are dumped in the river every day. The plastic and polythene pollution, largely originating from domestic waste, has reached alarming levels across all rivers and canals of Bangladesh.
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  • A Rohingya girl takes a shower under the open sky in front of her family’s makeshift tent in the Palongkhali refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 11 October 2017. According to UNHCR, more than 742,000 Rohingya, including more than 400,000 children, have fled to Bangladesh in the most recent exodus, which began on August 25, 2017.
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  • A woman draws drinking water from a cloth set out to catch rainwater, in the village of Kalabogi, in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, on 27 September 2020.
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  • A Rohingya mother with her child in front of their makeshift tent in the Palongkhali refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 05 October 2017.
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  • A girl enjoys a shower in the monsoon rain, in the Mohammadpur slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 29 July 2021. In the urban slums of Dhaka, people have access to fresh water only two times a day – once in the morning and once in the evening.
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  • A Rohingya family in front of their makeshift tent in the Palongkhali refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on 09 September 2017.
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