“Dhaka Lab”

PAPA Lab Dhaka 13-27 September 2014 OXFAM/NOVIB invited PAPA to do a PAPA Lab in Dhaka with a mix of photographers of DRIK and officers working in OXFAM/NOVIB and the partner organisation YPSA. PAPA’s method of reading the street in shared photo-walks gives an insight in the Tactics of Life in Dhaka. The PAPA Lab will lead to a PAPA Critical City Guide (CCG), a document that will be used as a starting point for a co-creation workshop in Dhaka in October 2014. The co-creation Workshop will be given by Butterfly Works. The co-creation workshop’s aim is to develop ideas for projects for the urban youth in several cities in South East Asia. Participants are Adnan Wahid, Habibul Haque,  Tapash Paul  from DRIK, Arifur Rahman, Abdus Sabur from YPSA and  Sumana Tanchangya,  Dhana Ranjan Tripura from OXFAM NOVIB.

Dhaka -  It’s amazing how resilient the people are that you meet on the street here in Bangladesh. They are living under conditions that many of us would not endure for…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

Dhaka -  To set up your shoe repair shop on less than a square meter in the middle of the sidewalk while pedestrians squeeze themselves past you, requires a high degree…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

There is no denying: big forces are at work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nature - the climate which causes the flooding of the land. The enormous pollution of the factories…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

Fried chicken is getting cheap in some cities of Bangladesh. Like this restaurant, many fried chicken restaurant are growing up with all the western names. They named this restaurant…
Haque Habibul – Dhaka Lab

A biker rides his motorbike thought the footpath full of pedestrians through the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court declared a regulation that no motorbike can go through footpath…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Cows are seen commonly in the streets of Rayerbazar area in Dhaka. People living in this place are mainly in lower-middle class and they do other work than their main…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

I was not surprised at all when I have found a boy under 16 age is working in a restaurant as a waiter instead studying at schools, but if you…
Dhana Ranjan Tripura. – Dhaka Lab

An electric pole placed in the middle of the channel. The channel is surrounded by toxic waste from tanneries, Mohammadpur Beribadh, Dhaka. …
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

A man-carrying wild parrots in the cage on the street for selling. Bird is seriously injured in the cage, Dhanmondi, Dhaka  …
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

Most of the slums in Dhaka are surrounded by waters; they are standing on the bank of the rivers or lakes which reason the slum dwellers to have water…
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

This is not a storage of any chemical damps . Its a water canal or water pass in the town . Its smell like a poison, eys are always burning here. Slum…
Arifur Rahman – Dhaka Lab

Its a common scenario in urban areas of Bangladesh. There was no parking facility in most of the school and when its turn off, than a huge traffic congestion was…
Abdus Sabur – Dhaka Lab

The children in the urban city are forced to join workforce for their survival instead of going to school. The primary school drop outs picked up working in the bakeries…
Sumana Tanchangya – Dhaka Lab

Through photography I have met countless people. Most of them are ultra-poor, they live hand to mouth. They become dark, harsh. But what amazes me is the honest smile…
Haque Habibul – Dhaka Lab

The Dhakai Bakarkhani is a traditional food of the people of old Dhaka. It was so famous for its quality and taste that there was great demand for it in…
Abdus Sabur – Dhaka Lab

One man is reading a magazine in front of blue wall on the street, Dhanmondi, Dhaka.     …
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

Young man carrying a ceiling fan on his shoulder in the street, Dhaka, Bangladesh …
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

Although Bangladesh has been made significant progress in achieving MDG 2: Universal Primary Education for All by 2015, still significant number of children remain out of schools or dropped  …
Dhana Ranjan Tripura. – Dhaka Lab

At twelve o’clock school finishes. Last night I had a long talk with an Italian business man in my guesthouse. He is working for a firm that develops chemicals…
Lino Hellings – Dhaka Lab

About 3.4 million people live in some 5000 slums of Dhaka city. Life for the slum people is full of miseries and sufferings. Slums growth have accelerated due to…
Abdus Sabur – Dhaka Lab

Most of the people living in Dhaka face scarcity of water at least once in a day, the water that is safe to use for drinking or cleaning. In…
Tapash Paul – Dhaka Lab

Two chairs! They both serve the same but say different stories. They are the stories about origin, colour, treatment, social class etc.One is candy blue, another one is brown…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Due to poverty and demand of life, this girl became aged at earlier of youth. Her appears assume in suffering in malnutrition also in high depress. Though she fight against…
Arifur Rahman – Dhaka Lab