The price of progress

One of the biggest challenges for developing countries is overpopulation. Governments often fail to provide sufficient facilities and all the necessary rights for a large number of people. Consequently, low-income families engage their younger members in the workforce to supplement their household income. However, sadly, even in hazardous workplaces, the necessary safety measures are not properly ensured.

Camera
Canon 60D
Country
Bangladesh
City
Joypurhat
Picture Year
2025
Photographer
AL Noman
Talents
Not identified
Team
Solo
Keywords
Humanity
Contrast
Social Documentary
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/alnomanfss/
Quote
If fear is the lens, fear is what you see
Muscle Beach
Eliot Charof
Los Angeles
When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, we used to visit our grandparents in Los Angeles each summer. They would take us down to Muscle Beach in Venice to watch the bodybuilders and buy us Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirts, making us feel like the strongest kids in the world. That memory always…
One Step Ahead
Xiaoping Lin
Xiamen
In the summer morning, the sunshine pours onto the surface of the Yundang Lake, and the egrets and big fish are busy catching small fish. The egret was one step ahead of the big fish and caught the small fish. The big fish rushed out of the water, opened its big mouth, made a silent protest, and…
Tea-Bagged
Mark Blickley
New York
A visual response I sent to a friend after we had a silly, heated July 4th discussion over why I prefer tea to coffee in the morning, because he reproached me as an un-American Anglophile.
Tais-toi et sois belle - single in black
Aljohara Jeje
Huraymila
Tais-toi et sois belle (French for ‘shut up and be pretty’) was the adage that shaped my upbringing. The expectation was clear: to become a woman, one must be pleasing and appeasing. My mother, adhering to this doctrine, taught me that I must always be prepared to smile so that others would find me…