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BDL 26 images Created 17 May 2021

BDL - Bangladesh - (Black and White Film) 
Description: Life in and around a refugee camp in Dhaka Bangladesh 1977 (B and W film)
Details: Photos captured in Bangladesh from 1977 

This is part of the AlpenImage Photography Archive, a vast image collection from around the world shot by Gordon Wiltsie. For more information about this gallery, or to browse the entire archive explore our interactive database at https://www.alpenimage.com/database
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  • Noorbanu, a Bengali woman left widowed and homeless by the 1971 War of Independence in Bangladesh, is pictured here living in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka. Before the war whe was a middle class woman who enjoyed the comforts of servants and a hunger-free life.
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  • A girl hugs her baby sister at Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 1977.  The clothes they are wearing were donated by an American charity but distrubuted by the camp director who sold them for a profit he pocketed.  The infant’s head is shaved to remove lice.
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  • Children living in a destitute rehabilitation camp in Bangladesh, 1977.  Their clothes were given by an American relief organization, and they depend upon a daily ration of food for basic survival.
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  • A child rests in his mother’s arms in Mirpur Destitute Camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 1977. Though she is impoverished his mother has spent precious pennies for bangles and make-up for her greatest source of pride - a son.  The dark circles around his eyes are believed to make them larger and more beautiful.
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  • A Muslim woman. Islamic tradition insists she keep her head covered in the outside world or in the presence of men outside her family.  The strictest devotees in Bangladesh use a full-length Purdah. Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie at Mirpur Destitute Rehabilitation camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in April 1977.
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  • This village constable in Manikganj, Bangladesh, holds an envied position, earning a guaranteed monthly salary of $12.00. 1977
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  • A day laborer peers over the shoulder of a job foreman doling out work digging a canal in Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A brick factory, where mud from the Brahmaputra River is fired into the only “stone” available. Broken bricks are subsequently pounded into gravel for road construction. Manikganj, Bangladesh 1977
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  • Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage.  Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power.  For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Villagers dig a canal by hand.  This is an internationally sponsored monsoon flood control project and workers are paid in grain by the amount of earth they move.  For a day’s work, these people will barely receive enough for their families to eat, but for many this is more than to be found anywhere else.  Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A village merchant and his wife stand in Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977. BDL-9-03
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  • A village woman carries a pot in Manikganj, Bangladesh.
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  • Day laborers in Manikganj, Bangladesh, smoke a hookah during a break from carrying mud out of a drainage canal they are digging to protect their village from monsoon flooding.
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  • A day-laborer rests between carrying baskets of mud from a canal that he is digging to mitigate monsoon flooding with a crew of other villagers of Manikganj, Bangladesh. 1977
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  • Children of Mirpur Destitute Camp, lined up for their daily cupful of milk and stack of survival crackers- their high point in an otherwise hungry day. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A Bengali woman living in a beggar’s rehabilitation camp after being widowed and left homeless by the 1971 War of Independence in Bangladesh  bathes her infant grandson near Dhaka.  1977
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  • Children line up for a daily ration of dried milk and survival biscuits at Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Residents of Mirpur Destitute camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, carry mud from a pond they are digging as a place to raise fish and establish a communal protein source.  This project was funded by Food For the Hungry in 1977.  Woman on left is Amina Khatum.
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  • A mother and daughter gossip as they break bricks into gravel for road construction near their home in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka Bangladesh.  For a long day of work the woman are paid about a pound of flour, barely enough to support their children.
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  • Sufia Begum & her son relax at Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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  • Noor Bannu “Duck Lady” - Noakhali. Bangladesh, 1977
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  • Noorbanu and her daughter in their hovel at Mirpur. Their only possessions are a few mud pots and a rusted tin full of flour from the relief lines.  Each night they must pish and shove anew to maintain their sleeping space amongst the scores of others around them.  Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A young Bengali woman entertains her baby son with a sparrow that she caught as a pet at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1979
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  • Shubotta (mother) and Mariam (daughter) and Koreen-bhai (grandson)
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