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A tired rickshawpuller feasts on a piece of mango at the end of the night. He must have spent a good bit of his hard earned money to have it, but the joy of biting into it must be worth it.
End of the small series.
GEC Circle,Chittagong,Bangladesh.
His dad is a rickshawpuller and he accompanied him because there was no one to take care of him in the house. He'd sit around the place, play around and wait for his dad to come back to pick him at the end of the day. When his father doesnt have passengers, he comes back to look over him.
Right across the street where the last two photographs were taken, he was again quite intrigued by the camera,wanted photos,and who am I to say no to them, its what fuels my photographic soul!
Chittagong,Bangladesh.
A rickshaw puller in Kolkata having his siesta in a December afternoon.. Though not a mode of transport which can be supported from a humanitarian point of view, for thousands of people from the neighbouring states of West Bengal this primitive mode of transport service is the only livelihood.
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: Waterlogged streets during rain in Dhaka on 27th June 2015.Heavy raining in the city continued for a four consecutive day, inflicting endless suffering on the people as water logging hampered educational and business activities.
Mr. Abul Kalam Azad has been wearing this hat customized by himself for last 12 years. This hat consists a small flag of Bangladesh on the top and two synthetic red roses with green leaves. And there are some glittery stones and red-green laces there to decorate it. Finally to make the hat more fashionable he put 2 red and green small light to glitter around it.
He was born in Rajshahi around 45-50 years ago. He couldn't join the Muktijuddho but he is always fascinated by it. He can't afford much by the earning of his rickshaw pulling to support the Freedom Fight of Bangladesh but he is doing what he can afford to support. he is continuing a twelve year's ritual to wear a hat with Bangladeshi National Flag. A salute to him.
Mirpur-1 Circle, Dhaka. Bangladesh 2011
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Delowar hossain, a rickshawpuller for the past 3 months used to work in garments factory before. He saw me carrying a camera, and wanted me to take a photograph of his ride. When I showed him the picture, he was amazed by its clarity. So I told him to stand infront of his rickshaw so that I can take a photo of him.
When I asked if he ever went to school, he replied yes, but not for long.
Chittagong, Bangladesh
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A rickshaw puller taking a nap on a hot afternoon. This is a way to wait for the passanger.
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Its not easy to pull rickshaw when its raining cats and dogs, especially with the fact that the traffic gets worse. But then, the working class of the country can really go the extra mile to survive.
GEC Circle,Chittagong.
and confused.
They werent sure why someone would want to photograph ordinary rickshawpullers. I had other ideas.
Chittagong,Bangladesh.
This is quite common here. A lot of farmers come to the city to pull a rickshaw and go back to plant seeds or harvest the crops during the appropriate seasons. He has been doing this for the last 17 years. I can't recall his name unfortunately!
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Dhanmondi 6, Dhaka.
Man selling jhal muri(a street delicacy) infront of 2nd Sholoshahar Gate during a hartal(strike). In the last ten years or so, whenever there is strike, the private cars and the big cars don't run on the street, and and you can see a different side of the city, with only rickshaws and some cng driven autos around.
Another SOOC from the streets of Chittagong,I'm loving the genuine colors more than ever.
2nd Sholoshar Gate,Chittagong.
Chandni Chowk, Delhi, India
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Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008.
From dawn to dusk, I am a rickshaw puller.
My feet bear the signs of endless working hours.
They swallows the dust and the dirt of street, and wear out eventually.
That's my reality.
But I, too have some dreams....
My sandals will tell you the colors of them.
So will my worn out nails.....
Which my wife painted in the red hue of henna.
Captured from Armanitola, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh from Today's photowalk of Bangladeshi Photographers. A rickshaw puller was taking rest inside his rickshaw. His red sandals and henna on his nails expresses the dreams he possess, which are surely colorful. Yet, his worn out feet tells the story of harsh reality of pulling the rickshaw from dawn to dusk.
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A rickshawpuller sitting on his rickshaw; taken during a photowalk near Farmgate area.
Farmgate, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Prem Prakash has been pulling rickshaw for the past 25 years in the tourist city of Jaipur.
He has a lot of pictures taken with foreigners and he keeps an album ready with him always. He never went to school but can communicate in broken English, Italian, Spanish and French pretty easily.
Shoaib Mia is a rickshaw puller cum farmer. During farming season he works as a farmer in his village, which is under Jaipurhat district. Rest of the months he pulls rickshaw in Dhaka. He has a son named Mohsen Mia, who plays amazing cricket. Shoaib Mia has a big dream that one day his son will play cricket in international arena. To support his dream about his son he always try to earn and save money as he can. When he pulls rickshaw in Dhaka, that time he usually earns 350-400 taka per day. But now he always try to earn around 500 taka per day by pulling more passengers, so that he can save some more money to support his son.
His son already made him proud, because Mohesen Mia already became a player of under 19 team of Jaipurhat district. As the days pass, dreams of Shoaib Mia get new dimensions.
After talking with this man, he and his son became a new hero for me. This underprivileged man actually taught me how to dream bigger.........
I didn't forget to take his cellphone number. When I'll be free, someday I'll give him up a call and will talk with this person again about his son.......... :)
Rickshaw-pullers in Bangladesh are mostly from the villages. Because of the recent crisis,inflation and unemployment, leads people from the villages and small towns to major cities like Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong to operate Rickshaws.
They only have their Rickshaws to drive,earn,sleep and live alive.
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The dearth of money makes Md. Shafiul Alam to pull rickshaw for last two and a half months. He is the father of two school going children who lives with their mother in Nilfamary district. He can save 300 Taka (USD$ 3) per day to lead himself, his family and the school fees for his children.
In kolkata when I roamed the city i surprised one thing was the "mode of Transport", Yes there are many different types of transport like Bus, Train, Tram, Ferry, Taxi, Auto and the Rickshaw pullers. I am very much heard 2 things about Kolkata one is Taxi and the other one is Rickshaw pullers. The moment we planned the trip to Kolkata I decided to have a story about the Rickshaw pullers.
I tried to capture them with the environment they live, where they pull the rickshaw and the people to interact. I tried to covered as much as possible with their actual daily activities rather than having a staged one. My photographs may not fully convey their life and work style but i tried my level best.
I personally felt very bad since they almost all are over 40 years old and they pull the rickshaws in the hot sun and dusty, crowded and narrow streets.
few points about the Rickshaw pullers from the existing documentary around the world;
Hand-pulled rickshaws came to India most likely from China during early 20th century. Kolkata is the only city in India, and one of the few around the world where hand-pulled rickshaws are still operating. Most of them are from the neighboring states like Bihar and Jharkhand and belong to uneducated and poor families. Most sleep, eat and live on the city's crowded pavements.
In most cases they do not own the vehicles, but pay a sizeable portion of their earnings to hire them.
According to the statistics, there are 6500 registered, and a few more thousands unregistered, hand-pulled rickshaws on the streets of Kolkata.
In 2006 the Government of West Bengal proposed a ban on the hand-pulled rickshaw; the authorities had decided the sight of barefoot humans pulling other humans around the city was bad for Calcutta’s image. Their union went to the High Court to oppose the ban and now this case is pending before the court of law since August 2006. All of them are contributing from their earnings to fight against the ban.
The Government is planning for other alternative work to provide them with because if they will stop working as rickshaw pullers they will lose everything they own.
It was quite late at night and the man was sitting on his own rickshaw, like a king on his throne.
I asked the man for a photograph and he was happy to be photographed.
Took almost five shots and I felt he became more comfortable with each photo.
Abu Taher has been driving a rickshaw for the past 7-8 years.
2 number gate, Chittagong,Bangladesh.
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And here is an unexpected treat! I am on a Kyoto city bus on the way from my hotel to the Kiyomizu-dera temple when I spotted a couple of Kyoto Geisha girls across the street while waiting at a red light. There was a car right next to the bus so I was thanking my stars that the car will move away fast once the light turns green and so I can get a quick shot of the geisha girls across the street. Sadly, a taxi pulled up on the opposite side and the two geisha were gone in a jiffy, before even our signal turned green. Sad! (this is not the photo of the two geisha but a representative image downloaded from the net- acknowledgement at the very end of this caption). Geisha are called 'geiko' in Kyoto, and geishas in training are called maiko. Meeting one of Kyoto’s geisha (or geiki as they are called here) is a magical and memorable experience. And although they cater exclusively to Japanese clients, some are now coming out to meet foreign tourists as well. The prices to meet one are extortionate to say the least though. Geisha are highly skilled entertainers who appear at high-end dinners, private parties and special events to add a special touch to the proceedings. They are NOT prostitutes, despite various silly rumors and portrayals in certain books and movies. Rather, they are ladies who have trained for years in the traditional Japanese arts to become the perfect entertainers. Kyoto is the heart of Japan’s geisha world. In Kyoto, however, fully-fledged geisha are properly called geiko (pronounced “gay-ko”). Young ladies, usually between the ages of 15 and 20, train for five years to become a geiko. During this period, they are known as maiko (pronounced “my-ko”). Knowledgeable insiders estimate that there are about 100 geiko and 100 maiko in Kyoto. Other cities, like Tokyo, have some version of geisha, but they don’t usually undergo the strict training that defines Kyoto’s maiko and geiko. More representative images of geiko and further notes appear later in this album. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019) Photo By Daniel Bachler - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=661792