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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Grace Holliday

‘It looked like a scene from thousands of years ago’: Jashim Salam’s best phone picture

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Displaced, 2017, shot on iPhone 7. Photograph: Jashim Salam

In the shadow of Tangkhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, photojournalist Jashim Salam stood by a projection screen and surveyed the crowd of Rohingya refugee children. They were watching a health and sanitation awareness film.

“In that particular moment it looked like a scene from thousands of years ago,” says Salam, who has documented the fallout from the crisis. “The landscape, the lighting just after sunset, the bewildered look in people’s eyes; it all felt surreal to me.”

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