Andrew Biraj

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Floods in Bangladesh
Location: Washington DC, USA
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Biography: Andrew Biraj is a photojournalist currently based in Washington DC. Biraj has worked for the international news agencies Reuters, Sipa Press USA and Getty Images. He holds an advanced diploma in photography from Pathshala, the South Asian... MORE
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Floods in Bangladesh
Copyright Andrew Biraj 2024
Date of Work Dec 1969 - Dec 1969
Updated Apr 2019
Topics Agriculture, Animals, Black and White, Climate Change, Community, Documentary, Dying/Death, Editorial, Environment, Family, Food, Homelessness, Isolation, Loss, Personal, Photojournalism, Poverty, Water, Youth
Living With Water

In Bangladesh flood has become a common phenomenon, a natural calamity which over the years has only worsened by the effects of global climate change. Scores of poverty-stricken village dwellers become homeless every time the flood prone regions are hit by the nature's curse. Hit and devastated, these people struggle to find solace living on the edges of losing their livelihood by a sudden change in the climate and fighting it over to survive. The flood hit victims suffer from health and sanitation almost always as the river water that overrides the villages mix with many types of wastes. Nutrition is far beyond their conception as the circumstances they live in hardly allow them the meal for once in a day.
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