
Dil Seher, a widow, holds a picture of her missing husband, © Farzana Hossen/British Red Cross
Tragedy, hope and ordinary days: photographer Farzana Hossen reveals what life is like in the world’s largest refugee camp. It’s now home to 740,000 people who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh two years ago.
I have visited the camp many times. At the beginning of the emergency, what I saw horrified me. People were just lying on the street and dying in front of my eyes.
There were dead bodies with children standing to one side watching, crying. Many had lost their parents, whether through death or when they fled.
I was left feeling helpless, a situation where you are exposed to so much suffering that you feel there are just too many people to help. Of course, I wanted to, and did in the way I could.