Munem Wasif

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
© Munem Wasif

© Munem Wasif
© Munem Wasif

View images from Tainted Tea here. More images on flickr. The Travel Photographer wrote about Munem in May.