Anik Rahman born in 1988 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a self taught documentary photographer based in Bangladesh, represented by NurPhoto Agency, Italy. Although he studied business, from the very beginning he was mostly interested in social ups and downs, politics and environmental issues. These things dragged him to set his carrier as a documentary photographer. His photographs have been exhibited in local exhibitions. He also has numerous publications locally and internationally for his singles and stories.Recently in 2014 he have won Honorable Mention in NPPA for Portrait and Personality Category.He have done his portfolio review from MR Hasan (Photojournalist, Falcon Photo Agency), GMB Akash (Profile Photographer, Panos Pictures) and Munem Wasif (Photographer, Agence Vu)
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Child labor in Bangladesh is common, with 4.7 million or 12.6% of children aged below 14 in the work force. Out of the child laborers engaged in the work force, 83% are employed in rural areas and 17% are employed in urban areas. Employment ranges from brick fields, garbage collecting, street hawker, different factories etc. In 2006, Bangladesh passed a Labor Law setting the minimum legal age for employment as 14. Nevertheless, the enforcement of such labor laws is virtually impossible in Bangladesh because 93% of child laborers are employed at this moment. The main reason is poverty. Due to poverty most of the parents can’t afford to send their children to school. Resulting, children are adopting child labor to contribute to their family and for their future as well.

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A two story house made of bamboo and tin collapsed at Hjipara Jheel, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM (local time). There were 14 rooms on each floor, and each room was inhabited by an entire family. The rooms were rented for BDT.3, 500 ($44) per month.
The location of the building on a polluted, swampy wetland meant that it was very difficult for people inside the building to survive, as the rubble from the building pushed into the water.
Casualty rates are currently 12 dead and 100 missing.
Locals claim that the main reason of the collapse was lack of a proper foundation. Add to this the fact that the building owner built an additional floor on the building 5 months ago with the aim of increasing profits. Survivors of the collapse said the building began vibrating and shaking in bizarre ways after the second floor was added.
The collapse highlights the problem of shoddy housing in Bangladesh’s heavily impoverished areas. There was no government oversight or intervention to monitor and prevent the construction and habitation of such a poorly constructed building. The collapse spurred protests from the Bangladesh Communist Party calling on the government to step up regulations on building safety and exploitation of the poor.

Sept-Oct, 2014
Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a country of rivers and waterways on which large swaths of its population live. River bank erosion and flooding are common and continuous process due to global warming and rising sea levels. This continuous natural hazard is destroying homes and livelihoods and turning millions of Bangladeshis into homeless climate refugees.
The factors controlling river and stream formation are complex and interrelated. These factors include the amount and rate of water supply from rain and upstream activity, sediment deposited into the stream systems, catchment geology, and the type and extent of vegetation in the catchment. As these factors change over time, river systems respond by altering their shape and course. Unpredictable weather patterns also make flooding a common problem as the course of the rivers shift.
As a result of riverbank erosion and flooding, millions of people are losing their homes and fertile land every year. Most people who lose their homes or land become climate refugees, often pouring into the country’s overpopulated cities penniless and looking for new opportunities. However, due to overpopulation, migrating climate refugees often arrive in the cities only to find themselves scrounging for food, work and accommodation. Thus, Bangladesh’s most vulnerable citizens are losing their battle against nature and are only made poorer and more desperate.

May 2014-January 2015
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Located on the delta of the Ganges river, Bangladesh is a country of waterways. There are around 300 rivers in Bangladesh, which make up 24,140 km of waterways. For this reason, river transportation is used more than road or rail transportation.
However, poorly designed transport boats, poor maintenance, recruitment of unskilled boat drivers, and the overloading of transport vessels are resulting in catastrophic boat disasters which kill thousands. It has been reported that in last 15 years there have been 573 boat accidents. These accidents have claimed the lives of more than 5000 people, and left around 1000 people missing and unaccounted for.
River transport is particularly popular amongst Bangladesh’s poor, as it is much cheaper than overland transport. As a result, most victims of riverboat disasters come from poor backgrounds, as they have no choice but to travel by boat. Many of those who require transport in the first place are the primary breadwinners of a family, as they need to travel to and from work. Therefore, those most affected by these tragic disasters are some of Bangladesh’s most vulnerable. Many of those killed leave behind dependent and impoverished families.

Bangladesh is a densely populated area, estimated about 1.6 million and ranked as 8th among top ten populated country in the world. Some 75 per cent of the population of Bangladesh lives in rural areas and many communities in hard-to-reach regions do not have adequate access to sanitation. In such a densely populated country, where a large proportion of the land regularly floods, sanitation is a continuing challenge. Most of the toilets do not maintain hygiene and mostly situated in the jungle which is approximately 100-300 feet away from their home without safe water connection. Despite improvements, large numbers of people remain at risk from the lack of safe disposal of excreta. Due to sanitation problem people from the rural area of Bangladesh is facing different kind of diseases, mostly diarrhea and Constipation. The most victim of diarrhea is aged 1-4 year old children. Among the death of 1-4 year old children 17% are caused by diarrhea in the rural area of Bangladesh. The main reason of constipation in the rural area of Bangladesh is the distance of the toilet from their home which causes stool incontinence and poor hygiene maintenance. Whereas constipation is a mother of some other dangerous health threat like bladder problem, pregnancy problem, high/low blood pressure, skin problem, under weight, UTI, ALRI and so on. Due to pregnancy problem some women faces hard reality like miscarriage. In the rural areas of Bangladesh pregnancy difficulty especially miscarriage calls a dark future for the women. Resulting some women falls into severe depression while some family forces their boy to marry again or some boy get divorced willingly, which is becoming a severe social tension. This social tension is causing severe mental clot to women. Improving rural sanitation is a complicated challenge, which involves action on several fronts. Every individual needs to be aware of this social tension. Thus government and private NGO’s should have been more active to make apposite solution.

After every five years, the time for general election comes in Bangladesh, bringing with it a fresh season of despair and uncertainty. For the last couple of months, the nation has been passing through sheer horror and uncertainty due to the ongoing fierce political unrest that sparked from a couple of issues.
Recently, the chronic violent political demonstration by the opposition allies started posing threat to the lives of common people. Random usage of handmade bombs on streets forced many to be blind and cut off physical organs, while patrol-bombs, hurled on running vehicles, burnt several people alive.
The unconscionable political demonstration by the opposition parties and the illogical stance of the government are endangering the common people who are now the worst victim of this dirty political game. They talk about democracy, they talk about freedom, they talk about human rights, but where is their ideology when these half-burnt people moan on hospital beds? Where is their democracy when people die burning alive in running bus? Till 10/01/2014 the death toll from Dhaka Medical Burn Unit is 21 and the number of injured and under treatment victims are numerous. “Shame on our dirty politics where power is more important than the welfare of people. Here in Bangladesh, people are the puppets in the hands of our political leaders” – said one of the victims of present political demonstration.
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A girl is working in a brick field

A girl is collecting fruit to sell them in a local market

A boy is working in a brick field.

A boy is collecting fruits to sell them in a local market

Two children are carrying grass to sell in a local market.

A boy is working in a plastic dump clearing site

A boy is selling newspaper.

Two boys are working in a leather factory.

Two boys are collecting plastic bottle to sell in a local market.

A boy is working in a dump yard.

A boy is working in a baloon factory.

A boy is working in a brickfield only for $1.5 where adult people work for its double.

A rescued goat stands on some bricks after being salvaged from the wreckage of the collapsed housing project.

Firefighters try to rescue the missing people from the collapsed, two story house inHajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collapse of the house, which was built on swampy ground killed 12 people and more than 100 people are still missing.

Khalil (L) and Arif (R) in disbelief after the death of Saiful, a young boy in their family.

Survivors of the building collapse take refuge in makeshift shelters as the rescue and salvage mission continues.

Sisters Rubina & Asha lost everything in the bulding collapse. Now they wonder how they will start all over again.

Remaining tin sheds over the Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015 after the collapse of two storied tin and bamboo housing structure.

Shefali Begum wails as she mourns the loss of her young son Saiful, who was killed in the housing collapse.

A man is showing his stitched hand after he was injured in the housing collapse.

Two women wait at a temporary shelter for their family members still trapped in the wreckage of the collapsed house.

Survivors living in a temporary shelter after the house collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 16, 2015.

A man waits for his missing family members after the collapse of two storied tin-shed house in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 16, 2015.

Families gather goods salvaged from the wreckage of the building complex at a temporary shelter.

Najrul Islam waits at a temporary shelter for missing family members still trapped inside the collapsed housing structure.

4 year Samia girl was rescued from the rubble of the collapsed housing complex.

A remaining tin shed over the Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, after the collapse of a two storied tin and bamboo housing structure.

Firefighters try to rescue the missing people from the collapsed, two story house inHajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collapse of the house, which was built on swampy ground killed 12 people and more than 100 people are still missing.

Firefighters try to rescue the missing people from the collapsed, two story house inHajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collapse of the house, which was built on swampy ground killed 12 people and more than 100 people are still missing.

Firefighters try to rescue the missing people from the collapsed, two story house inHajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collapse of the house, which was built on swampy ground killed 12 people and more than 100 people are still missing.

A picture floats in the swampy wreckage of the collapsed housing complex April 16, 2015.

A man waits for his missing family members at a temporary house near the collapse housing complex in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 16, 2015.

A survivor of the housing collapse in his new house. April 16, 2015.

A man still waiting for his missing family members at a temporary house near the collapsed building in Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 16, 2015.

The Bangladesh Communist Party holds a protest after the housing collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015.

Relatives of people missing in the house collapse wait at Hajipara Jheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2015.

Samia and her mom shortly after being rescued safely from the wreckage of the housing complex April 16, 2015.

Mohammad Ikram stands in front of the Meghna river, near Alexander Island, in Laxmipur. He has seen his neighbors migrating and even dying because of water related disasters. Despite strong signals that it is best to leave the area, he does not know what to do because his land is all he has.

Mohammad Hashmot Ali's house sits tilted and half submerged in the Padma river after the bank on which his house was built gave way. Dohar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Rabeya Khatun mourns her lost husband and son on Alexander Island, in Laxmipur. Her husband and son lost their lives when their house was swallowed by the river as they slept. Rabeya was at her mother's house when the incident occurred and thus survived.