Bangladesh — The Coming Storm

In this work of Jonas Bendiksen, he has shown the life of storm victims after the storm in Bangladesh. He has shown what difficulties those victims experience, how their lives change, what they go through, how they face the difficulties etc.

His Body of Work: https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/National-Geographic/Bangladesh---The-Coming-Storm/1

(1) This photo shows misery after the storm. The scarcity of drinkable water, flooded roads have brought misery in the lives of the inhabitants.

(2) The storm has destroyed their houses. Now they are living in temporary huts.

(3) This photo shows their drinkable water crisis. Tube-wells has submerged underwater in flood. They are waiting in a line to collect drinkable water.

(4) The storm has harmed the growing crops. Farmers are collecting crops that are left to be used.

(5) Due to the flood after the storm, water is everywhere. Flooded water has entered into the kitchen. Family members are waiting in the kitchen for the meal to be cooked where the floor is underwater.

(6) After the flood, the only transportations for those areas are Boats.

(7) After the storm, people collect the usable pieces of their house and use them to make houses in a different location where the after-storm conditions are good to reside.

(8) People again starting cultivation after the disaster. This photo shows the lack of advancement in agriculture in the rural area of Bangladesh. We can also see that the level of groundwater has dropped. For that reason, farmers are pouring water inside a tube-well so that groundwater starts coming.

(9) They use new methods to grow crops.

(10) In the coastal areas of Bangladesh, education facilities are not much developed. Children attend floating boat schools.

(11) The medical facilities in the coastal areas are not much developed. A health worker has come to a house for giving medical support.

(12) After the disaster, many people do not have choices but to migrate to Dhaka for earning their livelihood. They have to live in crowded slums in Dhaka.

(13) Migrated people usually do heavy physical labor required jobs after coming to Dhaka. Those jobs are very risky and wage is also very low.

— Piyas Biswas —

Student of Diploma in Visual Journalism — The Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University.