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Hazy shade of Dhaka
By combining a silhouetted worker and the headlights of a vehicle, Your View contributor Saad Shahriar has depicted what a hazy night on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, looks like.
Picturing pain
Empathy is not always an easy emotion to bring out in viewers but this picture from Farzana Hossen of a woman reacting to a fire that destroyed her home in a slum in Bangladesh certainly brought it out in me. Farzana’s use of black and white seems to emphasis the woman’s face and grief.
That picture shows the harsh reality of how we live in the world. This woman and that conditions under which she lives would never have entered the minds of most Westerners. Out of sight, out of mind.While most of us are trying to figure out how to load the Christmas tree with stuff, the woman in the picture might be trying to figure out how she’s going to eat today.It’s not that we should feel guilty for living well. But do have a responsibility to be appreciative of what we have, and also to help those in need how ever we can.That picture represents how the vast majority of people live in this world. It is a reminder that we in the West need to use what we have to solve the problems that cause this woman and others like her to live the way they do. We have the power. But we don’t have the will.And unless we develop the will and act upon it, we will loose the power we have as well.http://www.theendofpoverty.com/We are not animals and we should not be content to live as such.
Monsoon season
Contributor Jashim Salam captures the arrival of the monsoon rains in Bangladesh with a striking view of the clouds and also two boys in Chittagong experiencing their first rainfall of the season. The monsoon season typically accounts for eighty percent of the yearly rainfall in countries like Bangladesh.
Where there’s smoke
We took a liking to this contribution from Jashim Salam, of children watching from above as firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong. The fire’s smoke, normally a tad frightening, manages to seem almost whimsical as it drifts up past the kids and into the shafts of light.
When some people perceive a remote danger, they never know it is coming closer than ever before it is too late to escape. In mid-1980s, residents of the top floor building in Hong Kong were overlooking from balcony with curiousity what they saw a fire that broke out from a ground shop but chose to stay put.
The fire spiralled up inside the lift shaft to the 16th top floor where lift doors left open for repair, burning everything to ashes, including the onlooking residents. It was the only place where casualties lie.
Fishing for photos
Regular Your View contributor Jashim Salam sent in a selection of pictures this week of a fisherman casting his net in Bangladesh. In the photo above: Timing, composition and a little bit of luck combined to create an interesting environmental portrait.
View this week’s Your View selection here.
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