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Javed Kaisar posted an update
Hello EDC world, I am sharing some of the pictures that I took during my brief fieldwork on a refugee island in Bangladesh. This island is situated in the middle of the sea, newly emerged and transformed from an inhabitable place into the world’s largest refugee camp. Climate change is a serious concern for this island, given its location below sea level. However, it is surviving with a massive embankment and other coastal infrastructures.
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What my lens sees in Rohingyas' land Bhasan Char Island - Rottenviews
Bhasan Char Island can be called a large waiting room for Rohingyas who fled waves of violent persecution in their homeland of Myanmar in 2017. Not all, but only a fraction of the million displaced have lived there since 2020. … Continue reading
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Really evocative photos, especially the sense of scale and exposure to environmental elements, thank you for sharing
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Really great photo essay! The contrast between the model encampment photo and the mostly-vacant red-roofed camps, coupled with the photo of the improvised fishing boat, was evocative of a deficient “engineering/ planning” mindset as it confronts these contingencies, compared to the resilience and ingenuity of these communities as they piece together livelihoods in the aftermaths of violence and climate catastrophe.
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thank you. yes, you have rightly pointed the complexities.
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