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Photographer of Interest - Selected by Editor: From Bangladesh: Master and Servant

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
A series by photographer Jannatul Mawa on pairs living under the same rood but separated by circumstances, fortune, fate and rank.

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I'm so impressed with this work. It shows how the camera not only let's in light, but can also shine a light on the human condition in a most powerful way.

Asher
 
Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
An excellent work indeed...

She is a keen advocate for the rights of women.

The image you posted belongs to this series

Here is another one from the same set. Excellent, excellent. I like this ! :)

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Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
I do like the concept.

"Traditionally housemaid (helping hand) work for just two meals a day and assist the middle-class women, both housewives and working women in Bangladesh. They don’t have fixed working-hour or salary. Such cheap labor is rare in the world, perhaps 15 dollars a month. Since domestic work is gendered, hence, housemaids are women. In the society, it is perceived that only women will perform the domestic work which also includes the middle class working women. This household activity is analogous for them although the ‘class’ creates a distance. Every day, maidservants take care of the bed and sofa with their hand but they are neither allowed to sit nor to sleep on them once. With their domestic roles, they are ‘close’ to the middle class women and ‘distant’ at the same time. My intention is to document them by creating a rear occasion of keeping a close distance."
 
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