Nature has never made it easy to live in
Bangladesh. Since childhood, I lived with my family right beside a
riverbank. We swam in the river, we played and we even relied on the
river for transportation. In short, our life had its highs and lows
with that of the river. Sometimes, our house flooded during the full
moon and we feared being washed away or left floating in the river.
Thus we grew up with the river and flooding was very much a part of us.
In 1988, I witnessed the biggest flood of the country, one of the
largest in Bangladesh history, though I was not a photographer at the
time. Since then, I have witnessed the three major floods of the last
decade as a photographer and I have seen the stories of the displaced
people who eventually lost their homes. Many today live in other lands,
and many have been forced to migrate to the cities seeking better
prospects. Consequently, the capital fills up with more people every
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REFUGEES
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text are copyrighted to photographer Abir Abdullah
