http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/13777 Images by Abir Abdullah http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/6915/headshot_Abir_Abdullah_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612657/_MG_4859_small.jpg' /><br />Nabi, a flood victim measures depth of water. Sariakandi Groin, Bogra<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612657'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612657 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612657 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612657/_MG_4859_small.jpg' /><br />Nabi, a flood victim measures depth of water. Sariakandi Groin, Bogra<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612657'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612663/_MG_2968_small.jpg' /><br />Khan (80) and his wife wait with their house materials and other things in a land in the open sky after lost their land by river erosion.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612663'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612663 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612663 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612663/_MG_2968_small.jpg' /><br />Khan (80) and his wife wait with their house materials and other things in a land in the open sky after lost their land by river erosion.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612663'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612669/_MG_1852_small.jpg' /><br />Puspa Rani Roy prepares to leave the land she has lived on for fifteen years. She is moving to new ground with her husband,mother-in-law and two children as their own land is about to collapse into the river. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612669'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612669 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612669 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612669/_MG_1852_small.jpg' /><br />Puspa Rani Roy prepares to leave the land she has lived on for fifteen years. She is moving to new ground with her husband,mother-in-law and two children as their own land is about to collapse into the river. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612669'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612675/_MG_2410_small.jpg' /><br />Mistar Ali (18) sits on a bed, waiting to rebuild his house after moving it from a kilometer away. Bogra<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612675'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612675 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612675 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612675/_MG_2410_small.jpg' /><br />Mistar Ali (18) sits on a bed, waiting to rebuild his house after moving it from a kilometer away. Bogra<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612675'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612681/_MG_2906_small.jpg' /><br />A wooden furniture, almirah is kept beside the street in a village during the shifting of a house. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612681'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612681 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612681 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612681/_MG_2906_small.jpg' /><br />A wooden furniture, almirah is kept beside the street in a village during the shifting of a house. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612681'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612684/_MG_3354_small.jpg' /><br />Anna (26), who has already moved her house once, cooks on a banana-tree raft outside her kitchen. Sariakandi, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612684'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612684 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612684 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612684/_MG_3354_small.jpg' /><br />Anna (26), who has already moved her house once, cooks on a banana-tree raft outside her kitchen. Sariakandi, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612684'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612690/_MG_3690_small.jpg' /><br />A flooded house in the Sariakandi region, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612690'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612690 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612690 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612690/_MG_3690_small.jpg' /><br />A flooded house in the Sariakandi region, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612690'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612696/_MG_4223_small.jpg' /><br />Rasheda Begum (32) in her house in Antarpara, near Bogra. She moved to Antarpara with her family two years ago, when their land on an embankment collapsed. <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612696'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612696 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612696 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612696/_MG_4223_small.jpg' /><br />Rasheda Begum (32) in her house in Antarpara, near Bogra. She moved to Antarpara with her family two years ago, when their land on an embankment collapsed. <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612696'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612699/_MG_5887_small.jpg' /><br />Shephali and his brother inside their temporary shelter made by polythene beside a road after lost their house due to the flooding. Chilmari, Kurigram. <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612699'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612699 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612699 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612699/_MG_5887_small.jpg' /><br />Shephali and his brother inside their temporary shelter made by polythene beside a road after lost their house due to the flooding. Chilmari, Kurigram. <br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612699'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612705/_MG_5471_small.jpg' /><br />Cows are kept under mosquito net in the street after the land went under flood water. Chilmari, Kurigram.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612705'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612705 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612705 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612705/_MG_5471_small.jpg' /><br />Cows are kept under mosquito net in the street after the land went under flood water. Chilmari, Kurigram.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612705'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612708/_MG_2775_small.jpg' /><br />Huge part of a land has got cracked and is being taken away by the river Jamuna slowly. Hundreds of houses shifted as river erosion took away land rapidly. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612708'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612708 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612708 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612708/_MG_2775_small.jpg' /><br />Huge part of a land has got cracked and is being taken away by the river Jamuna slowly. Hundreds of houses shifted as river erosion took away land rapidly. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612708'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612711/_MG_4472_small.jpg' /><br />The dead body of a drowned man is kept on a boat. Family members recovered his body after two days of drowning in the flood water. About ten million people have been affected and more than 1000 people have died in the flooding this year. Balasi, Gaibandha.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612711'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612711 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612711 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612711/_MG_4472_small.jpg' /><br />The dead body of a drowned man is kept on a boat. Family members recovered his body after two days of drowning in the flood water. About ten million people have been affected and more than 1000 people have died in the flooding this year. Balasi, Gaibandha.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612711'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612717/_MG_1380_small.jpg' /><br />Rokeya Begum grieves standing in her recently eroded land. She shifted her house in the street after the river Jamuna swept away most of her land. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612717'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612717 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612717 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612717/_MG_1380_small.jpg' /><br />Rokeya Begum grieves standing in her recently eroded land. She shifted her house in the street after the river Jamuna swept away most of her land. Hashail, Munshigonj.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612717'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612723/_MG_5540_small.jpg' /><br />hahebanu (18) stands inside her straw made flood affected house. She got recently married and her husband is a farmer. ' We are here with the flood water for more than twelve days and couldn't move to any dry place or shelter camp.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612723'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612723 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612723 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612723/_MG_5540_small.jpg' /><br />hahebanu (18) stands inside her straw made flood affected house. She got recently married and her husband is a farmer. ' We are here with the flood water for more than twelve days and couldn't move to any dry place or shelter camp.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612723'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612726/_MG_6202_small.jpg' /><br />Mafuja (30) cooks food in the open sky in a shelter camp in the evening. She came here with her family after lost their straw made house. Most of the people are poor and live hand to mouth. Chilmari, Kurigram.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612726'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612726 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:14 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612726 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612726/_MG_6202_small.jpg' /><br />Mafuja (30) cooks food in the open sky in a shelter camp in the evening. She came here with her family after lost their straw made house. Most of the people are poor and live hand to mouth. Chilmari, Kurigram.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612726'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612729/_MG_6796_small.jpg' /><br />Sahera (40) inside her flood affected house. She lives here for three years before that used to live near the river bank and river took away that land.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612729'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612729 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612729 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612729/_MG_6796_small.jpg' /><br />Sahera (40) inside her flood affected house. She lives here for three years before that used to live near the river bank and river took away that land.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612729'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612732/_MG_6970_small.jpg' /><br />Sahera Khatun (55) with her belongings in the floor of a school class room. She came her a week ago when flood water damaged her straw made house.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612732'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612732 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:22 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612732 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612732/_MG_6970_small.jpg' /><br />Sahera Khatun (55) with her belongings in the floor of a school class room. She came her a week ago when flood water damaged her straw made house.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612732'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612735/_MG_4315_small.jpg' /><br />Abu Bakkor (62) washes himself sitting on his bed before attending a prayer inside his house submerged by flood water. Dakatpara, Sariakandi.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612735'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612735 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:25 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612735 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612735/_MG_4315_small.jpg' /><br />Abu Bakkor (62) washes himself sitting on his bed before attending a prayer inside his house submerged by flood water. Dakatpara, Sariakandi.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612735'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612738/_MG_2340_small.jpg' /><br />Rubia (40) sits on a banana raft inside her house which is waist deep by flood water. Her husband is a farmer and they have three children. They came to this house five years ago after lost their own land.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612738'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612738 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612738 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612738/_MG_2340_small.jpg' /><br />Rubia (40) sits on a banana raft inside her house which is waist deep by flood water. Her husband is a farmer and they have three children. They came to this house five years ago after lost their own land.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612738'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612720/IMG_0054_small.jpg' /><br />Family members carry a rooftop of their house to a dryer place as water entered most of the houses and left thousands homeless. Sariakandi, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612720'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612720 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:26:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612720 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/612720/IMG_0054_small.jpg' /><br />Family members carry a rooftop of their house to a dryer place as water entered most of the houses and left thousands homeless. Sariakandi, Bogra.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/612720'>view full-size image</a> Abir Abdullah