A Struggle For Democracy
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A Struggle For Democracy

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Photograph

Shahidul Alam

Maker
Bangladeshi, b. 1955

A Struggle For Democracy

1989
Gelatin silver print
Image: 23.7 × 35.5 cm (9 5/16 × 14 in.)
Paper: 30.4 × 40.5 cm (11 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.0262
Inscriptions verso (applied printed label in black ink): 11 In winter 1989, the movement again gathered momentum. The people demanded a change,
but while politicians negotiated, the poor got
poorer. Ramjan, a young rickshaw walla lives
with his family in a "factory" in Rayerbajar,
Dhaka. While Ramjan is out with his rickshaw,
the women and children break stones. The "factory owner" pays then 20 pence for each 50 Kilogram bag of stone.
(applied printed label in gold):DRIK PICTURE LIBRARY LTD.
58 Rd. 15A (New), Dhanmondi Res. Area
Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
DRIK PICTURE LIBRARY LTD.
58 Rd. 15A (New), Dhanmondi Res. Area
Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
(applied label handwriiten in pencil): Alam11.2
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