The sky over Chandpur in the evening. The city was flooded in 1995 and a once prosperous port is now under threat of sinking. Whenever I see photographs of Bangladesh there's nearly always water involved. It's a part of our life, the way Western people live in snow.
Water is extremely vital.
In one way it is the means of production, and at another time it can be a menace. The way that people manage the water is thousands of years old indigenous knowledge, they way they turn them into the means of production. I mean, they need the flood water. So the whole production rhythm is very much linked with the sea water as well. Can you explain to people who wouldn't necessarily know anything about Bangladesh how the cycle of agriculture works on flood waters and so on.