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Photographer/Artist: Palash Khan | View all photos by this person Palash's passion for photography dates back to his schooldays. He used to cut out and collect photographs from different magazines. Buying a camera was beyond his dreams. He always craved for one and dreamt about the moments he could capture with it.
After the HSC exam he joined Bangladesh Photographic Institute for a basic photography course. Even then he did not have a camera. His dreams came true when his mother offered to buy him a camera. He was over the moon. He bought a Nikon- FM2. With that he started working as a freelancer, selling his photos to different newspapers. That was in 2001.
In 2003, he joined the Daily Independence as a photojournalist. At the same time, he enrolled himself in a diploma programme in photography. At the beginning of 2005, he joined one of the oldest newspapers of Bangladesh, the Daily Sangbad. Since then, he has been working on documentaries, human rights, political and environmental issues.
Description: Buriganga, the river that once breathed life to the city of Dhaka, is one of the most polluted rivers of Bangladesh. The level of pollution has reached death defying level quite long ago. But people are unaware of this fact. More than 300 industries dump their toxic wastes into this river. 40% of which is partially decontaminated sewer waste and the remaining don't go through any purification process. More than 10,000 liter of industry and hospital waste gets poured in these waters every day.
