A number of talented photographers who are also residents of the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh are using their art to raise awareness about the plight of their people, the Rohingya. They are currently trying to raise awareness about malnutrition in the camps – a result of stricter rationing as the World Food Programme has lost resources.
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A number of photographers living and working in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh – they, themselves refugees – document daily life there, posting images on social media every day.
The photos show glimpses of everyday life in the largest refugee camp in the world – a soccer game played between two makeshift shelters, residents getting together to chat about the news or two children peeking out from a window in their home made of tarp.
More than a million Rohingya have fled persecution in their homeland, Myanmar, since 1990. The vast majority of these refugees left Myanmar after a brutal crackdown by the Burmese Army that took place in 2017. Around 900,000 Rohingyas now live in Cox’s Bazar, a town near the border with Myanmar that now contains the largest refugee camp in the world.
Many children and young adults were born in Cox’s Bazaar and have spent their entire lives in these overcrowded camps, regularly torn apart by floods, fires and epidemics.
‘Through my photography, I am raising my voice for my community’
Ro Yassin Abdumonab is a Rohingya refugee. He began taking photos with his smartphone in October 2017, just a few months after he arrived in Cox’s Bazaar after fleeing the crackdown. These…
