Photographer of the Week
From January 05, 2026, to January 11, 2026 – Week 02
Behind the Shot: In Search of Precious Water
This photo story explores the quiet crisis of access to safe drinking water across Bangladesh, moving from the dense urban fabric of Dhaka to the climate-vulnerable coastal belt. Beneath a bridge in the heart of the capital, a fragile community once lived in the shadows of the city. Today, only a few families remain, displaced by ongoing road and bridge reconstruction. The space is dark, damp, and littered with waste, yet life continues. Anowara Begam, a mother of two, walks daily to a distant tubewell—the only reliable source of clean water available to her.
Beyond the city, the struggle intensifies in different ways. In coastal regions, frequent cyclones, rising salinity, and the absence of deep tubewells make fresh drinking water increasingly scarce. Here, natural disasters compound long-standing inequalities, forcing communities to rely on unsafe or distant sources. Together, these images reveal how water scarcity cuts across geography—linking urban neglect and rural vulnerability—and how survival often depends on resilience forged in the margins of development and climate change.
