The daily struggle of the slum dwellers of the country has been featured at a three-day exhibition at the Institute for
Asian Creatives in Gulshan 2 in the capital.
The exhibition titled We Tell is an outcome of a project with the same title organised by The Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) in association with the government of Bangladesh and the UNDP. The exhibition is an initiative to better understand urban poverty and the impact of poverty on women and young girls in Bangladesh.
As many as 30 girls and women from three slums in Tongi, Khulna and Naogaon were invited to be part of the project. They were provided with digital cameras and tutored by professional photographer Emdadul Islam Bitu, who is a specialist in working with poor and vulnerable communities. Together, the participants learnt how to use the cameras and to capture images that would tell the story of their lives and those in their communities.
The exhibition displays 68 photographs which give a new insight into the realities of life in a poor urban settlement through the perspective of women who live there.
The photographs depict women in their day to day activities like purchasing groceries from nearby shop, taking care of their children, cooking, cleaning, etc. Besides, young girls studying in hopes of better lives, have also been featured in the exhibition.
The exhibition was inaugurated by the visiting UNDP regional director Haoliang Xu at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon on May 18. The three-day exhibition opened on the next day at IAC and was open from 12:00 to 8:00pm for everybody till Tuesday.
-With New Age input
