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24 images Created 3 Jul 2011

Dhaka rickshaw drivers, Bangladesh.

Rickshaw drivers in Dhaka have to brave both the heat and frantic traffic to make a living. A rickshaw rider can make up to £3/day after having paid the £2 rickshaw lease. All are men and the work is incredibly hard.The portraits were exhibited in the bike shop Lock 7 in Hackney East London through-out October in connection with London Photomonth 2011
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  • Dhaka is a Mega City with 15mill inhabitants. The heat in Dhaka is fierce and so is the traffic. These portraits of men at work were shot in that traffic and heat and was shown in Lock 7, a bike shop in Hackney.
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  • A rickshaw rider in Dhaka traffic.
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  • On show at the bike shop Lock 7.
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  • On show at the bike shop Lock 7.
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  • Dhaka is a Mega City with 15mill inhabitants. The heat in Dhaka is fierce and so is the traffic. These portraits of men at work were shot in that traffic and heat and was shown in Lock 7, a bike shop in Hackney.
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  • On show at the bike shop Lock 7.
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  • On show at the bike shop Lock 7.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and one of the world's mega cities with more than 15 mill inhabitants. Night time, electricity is scarce and often intermittent.
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  • Life in the slums by the  railway tracks in Tejgaon. Homes are build closely to the tracks leading in and out of one of Dhaka's main train stations and life is goes on as in any othr part of Dhaka in spite of the dangerous proximity to the live tracks and trains passing at regular intervals.People sheltering from the rain under the over pass.
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  • Rickshaws parked up near the Tejgaon train tracks.
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  • Another traffic jam in Cantral Dhaka.
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  • Rickshaws are cheap travel but not alwasy comfortable - or safe in traffic.
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  • Monir,9 years old with his father Sorif who is a rickshaw driver. Monir has multible disability and they live in a schack behind a rickshaw holding place with mother Morshda, bother Mukhtar and little sister Mim.
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  • A rickshaw driver over taking a bus, rickshaws are the cheapest and most commonly used mode of public transport in Dhaka.
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  • Rickshaw drivers washing and laughing on a break from the furious traffic.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and one of the world's mega cities with more than 15 mill inhabitants. Night time, electricity is scarce and often intermittent.
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