Munem Wasif (b. 1983) is a documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He now works with Drik NEWS as a staff photographer.
He won an “Honorable Mention” in the 2007 All Roads Photography Program by the National Geographic Society, First Prize in the Konkurs Fotografii Prasowej, and Second Prize in the 2007 Polish BZ WBK Press Foto Contest for his extensive work on tea garden workers.
On Tainted Tea:
It is ‘tainted’ with the humid sweat of those tea workers, their cornered lives of minimum wages, their servile existence of generations stuck!
© Munem Wasif
© Munem Wasif
© Munem Wasif
View images from Tainted Tea here. More images on flickr. The Travel Photographer wrote about Munem in May.
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palash khan is a Bangladeshi photojournalist who seems to be able to connect with his subjects on a very personal level. His main interests in photography are in news ,socio-environmental and political issues. He is now working for the sipa press as a photographer
aapni black and whit a besi photo tolen keno ????
I saw your photos at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and was very moved by the stories they told of ordinary people and the hardship they are suffering.as a result of climate change.
Thank you Munem.
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