People of Sylhet
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People of SylhetFebruary 2009
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In Sylhet
I spent most of February 2009 in Sylhet, with the NGO Friends in Village Development Bangladesh, which I had helped set up in 1980.
People around the FIVDB campus became used to my walks, twice a day, in the surrounding villages and forests.
There is no common theme except the dignity of the poor. I arranged the photos in pairs, to ease orientation in realms that may be foreign to many, and still are to me.
Aldo BeniniDhaka, 11 March 2009
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Lives under supervision
A madrasa lesson,
a glimpse over the wall
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Adolescent girls
One holding on to her childhood,
the other surveying the prospects before her
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Struggling with the elements
Melting the tar,
fishing out the pond
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Struggling with the burden
Bookshelves appear out of nowhere in the forest
Walking to the construction site
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Boss and worker
The village entrepreneur who got the bid for the tarmac road
The woman who sweeps the road before the pouring
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Farm and factory
He bid on the price of cauliflower
The ceramic tile packers
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Getting us food and drink
Tea for the poor man
Justice in peanuts
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Disappearing in the forest
At dusk, returning to invisible
Begging the trees for sustenance
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The beauty of this woman, above her destitution and desolation, stunned me.
If only I were gifted enough to tell the stories that she and the others carry about them.
Thank you for paying attention.