Compound Eyes [..Saint Martin's Island, Bangladesh..]

Saint Martin's Island, Bangladesh, 2011.

 

Those were hidden, underneath the blue, bolstering the island silently.

 

Those were torn apart, exposed and taken to you.

 

So that you can buy them, bring them back in town and can decorate your house.

 

So that you can destroy an island,and can build your dream elsewhere.

 

Captured from Saint Martin's Island. Saint Martin's is the only coral Island of Bangladesh situated at the southern end, amid vast blue of Bay of Bengal. It's a big tourist attraction, and authentically so. Saint Martin's is a dreamland, a place where you'll feel that you are in somewhere else other than this world. However, the people here are not angels, they are like us, entangled in greed, poverty and ignorance. The children collect these living corals from near the shore where the live coral colonies are found and try to sell them to the tourists as decorative pieces. What they don't understand is that they are sharing an inevitable destiny with the island, which is ultimate destruction.

 

Dear tourists, please do not buy these corals and discourage these children from breaking live corals which create an entire island.

 

Although the title Compound Eyes doesn't properly fit this image, I could not help naming it so because of an interesting coincidence and contrast with the pair of human eyes already present in this shot. Please check out more about Compound Eyes, if you don't already know about it.

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