Showing posts with label exhibition Ek Khaale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exhibition Ek Khaale. Show all posts

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past

The Daily Star
By Naseef Faruque Amin
Sat Sep 6, 2025 

Visitors at Ek Khaale: Once Upon a Time, curated by Greg Constantine and organised by BRAC University’s Centre for Peace and Justice, engage with archival photographs that seek to reclaim the memory and dignity of the stateless Rohingyas. Courtesy: Greg Constantine 

It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh. Greg Constantine, an American photojournalist and documentarian who has spent nearly two decades chronicling the plight of the Rohingya, sat inside a bamboo hut in Cox's Bazar, leaning towards the elderly men who were holding plastic bags filled with their pasts—brittle documents, photographs yellowed into sepia, certificates folded and refolded until the creases seemed older than the paper itself. He asked them, almost casually: Why have you never shown these to anyone else?

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