In 2020, I reached out via Facebook Messenger to a Rohingya man living in western Myanmar´s Rakhine state. I asked him about the situation there three years after the military operations against the Rohingya which caused thousands of deaths and the exodus of more than 700,000 people to Bangladesh. He …
Through photography and social media, some Rohingya refugees are documenting life in Bangladesh. By definition, many of them are also activists because they advocate for human rights and want social change in Myanmar, their native country. New media and the internet have allowed them to create a networked social sphere …
Recently in Bangkok, I attended the presentation of a book and exhibition showing the work of Rohingya photographers. The creators could not be present at the event because they are refugees in Bangladesh and could not travel to Thailand. Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, who became refugees after …
A picture in Bangladesh. Like in the romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, one Rohingya boy stands on a hillock above the bamboo and tarpaulin shelters and dirt paths of a refugee camp. The kid, dressed with the traditional longyi, points to the mountains on the horizon where …
