Photographs featuring the victims of the recent Rana Plaza tragedy will be displayed today at a group exhibition in front of the depressed land on
which Rana Plaza building stood once in Savar.
Four photo artistes have jointly organised the show to remind the people about the tragic building collapse on April 24 this year resulting in the loss of lives of over 1100 apparel workers, who used to work in different factorieshoused in the building.
About 400 workers are still missing and the thousands of survivors of one of the worst industrial disasters in the world are leading miserable lives.
The show titled ‘Rana Plaza Collapse: Death of Thousands Dreams’ will continue from 10:00 am to 5:00pm.
Mother of a missing apparel worker Shantona will inaugurate this exhibition. Abdul Aziz, father of a dead worker Shawon and Khadija, wife of a dead worker Khokon and many other workers will be present in the exhibition.
The show will display 10 enormous photographs in front of the barb wire, which the district administration has placed to demarcate the land on which Rana Plaza stood once near the Dhaka Aricha highway at Savar.
Some of the photographs of the exhibition will feature the dead and injured labours under the rubble following the collapse. A few images will illustrate the pains and sufferings of the injured workers and some will contain themes of a better future, said the organisers.
The participants and organisers of the exhibition are Abir Abdullah, Ayon Rehal, Shuvo Das and Taslima Akhter.
‘It’s the first joint venture work of four individual photographers to remind the people about the horrible and brutal experience of the victims and the sufferings of their families,’ Taslima Akhter told New Age.
‘We forget the facts too soon and quite easily. But, we don’t want to forget this brutality. Through this show, we wish to share our anger, our dreams and to raise our voices against this brutality,’ said Abir Abdullah, a participant and organiser of the show.
‘We wish to organise this show on 24th of every month in different districts across the country to keep the memory of the brutal incident burning so that they do not repeat,’ Abdullah added.
-With New Age input
