My home country Bangladesh has a lot of floating population coming to the capital Dhaka from the rural areas with dreams of making something of their lives.
I wanted to depict both sides of their feelings - sorrow at having to leave home and hope for a better life for tomorrow.
This piece was part of my submission for a short course on Multimedia Journalism. It was planned around a household help who came to the city with her husband, who’s working in a city school as a janitor. Their dreams of giving their son the education they could not get was my theme. It is a story of hopes and dreams of the common man.
Getting inherently shy people to talk about their own life and using my simple digital camera to record it all was a challenge.
My ambition as a documentary maker:
- To aid in women’s empowerment in Bangladesh where there’s a tremendous discrimination against women in all walks of life.
- To be part of the education for all program in the world.
- To uphold the motto “The world as our home should be well preserved for generations to come”.
