Patrick Brown on photographing Rohingya refugees
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No Place on Earthis an expansive collection of Brown’s photographs that shed light on the devastating conditions of the Rohingya Muslims — who fled persecution in Myanmar for Bangladesh. A winner of the 2019contributor Jason Motlagh and human rights campaigner Matthew Smith.“The book is powerful and personal and resonates with people who spend time with it,” Motlagh explains.
There’s actually a period of time where people are obviously very concerned about trying to get a shelter, trying to get food, trying to get the basic necessities of survival. And then from there, trying to figure out what the next move is. Aid agencies are slowly making a presence, trying to get some organization. Now, the cities are 1.2 million people — more densely populated than Manhattan.
But what I can tell you is the people I did photograph, and their testimonies I took, I saw them repeatedly. I really wanted to make sure that they were fully aware of what I was doing and what I was trying to achieve.There was one person. She said, “Look I might be illiterate. And I know there’s a bigger world out there. There’s more people out there then there is in this camp, but I did nothing wrong.
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