Street Life

Dhaka October 2010. Homeless people sleeping on the street at Karwan bazar. River erosion, tidal wave and other calamities are turning many village people on the breadline, forcing them to migrant to the capital with the hope of getting some work for a living. Copy Right- Monirul Alam

Live In Danger !!!

Old Dhaka September 2010. Around 50 families and 100 bachelors live in this structure made of Iron and wood.This House in Kamalbagh near on the Buriganga river. Unsafe and unhygienic accommodation to the poor who throng the capital for work. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

Tax Fair

Dhaka September 2010.Income-tax fair first ever held in Bangladesh.Taxpayers crowd a one-stop shop at the Diploma Engineers' Auditorium in Dhaka. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

Book’s U Can Read

To me its a beautiful concept, when I visit the gallery and to see the exhibition remember my childhood, I read  a holly Qoran using a  (Rahel a stand for the Qoran) bookstand.

Dhaka, Art Center September 2010. Book's U can read by Wakilur Rahman.Copy Right:Monirul Alam

In this series represent a visible sign of Islam. Wakil bhai’s other works is really thinkable and conceptual,I really appreciate his Art.

Hear i say one things as an photojournalist Art/Picture never make it, a truth Art it self born like new born babies.

Dhaka Art center organized a week long solo   Art exhibition title Book’s U Can Read by artist’s Germany residents  Wakilur Rahman.

Illegal Structure Knocks Down

Dhaka Buriganga River September 2010. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority BIWTA demolish illegal shop on their land at Shoarighat near the bank of Buriganga river. More than seventy structures demolish lead by Dhaka District Magistrate Mohammad Kamruzaman with fire service, RAB and Police.Copy Right:Monirul Alam

Risky Journey!

Dhaka, 2005. A garment worker climb into the roof of launch at the Sadarghat launch terminal, every year the situation is almost same home bound people are gather on the launch, bas and train station and taking risky journey ahead of Eid festival. The Eid-Ul-Fitr is the biggest festive event of Muslim, the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Copy Right: Monirul Alam

Ramadan In the World

Dhaka August 2010. Bangladeshi Muslim devotees wait for Iftar, the meal that breaks the day long fast during holy Ramadan. Every day more then thousand of Muslims attend at Baitul Mukarram mosque at Dhaka for Iftar party. The Islamic foundation organized this programmed during the Ramadan month . Copy Right:Moirul Alam

Boat Race

Dhaka August 2010.A traditional boat race known as 'Nouka Baich' is held in the Buriganga River at Basila in Dhaka on Thursday.Copy Right:Monirul Alam

Displacement & Migration

Actually I documented past five years under theme of “climate refugee of Bangladesh”. For my project I went to the north part of Bangladesh located Kurigram district, Musullir Char near Dharla River which is link with the Bank of River Jamuna. People are commonly known Monga area. I documented their lifestyle and struggling position, my observation is that, they are already migrant and displace their original root.
Finally I get down that area, huge number of people around me and looking my camera they are very curious about my camera specially children. May  be first time they see this kind of camera. I spent more time and listen their problem. An old age man Rafiqul said, “We only depend on Allah. You are the first visitor to arrive this area, No one can visit our area but we survive, we struggle very inhuman life.”
Rising sea levels and the growing number of natural disasters forced by climate change are already driving migration and displacement. What I am doing for them. I think through my photo stories to make awareness the world’s people who are doing something for them. This is one of my selected photos which I use my blog. October 2005, Kurigrame, Bangladesh

Displacement & Migration
Photo:Monirul Alam