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Heartbreaking Bangladesh Factory Photo Shows Couple In Final Embrace?6
A photo taken among the devastation of a collapsed Bangladesh garment factory has brought the deaths of at least 800 victims into sharp focus.
The photo, which gained initial attention on reddit, a social news website, shows two deceased victims embracing inside the collapsed factory in Savar, Bangladesh.
Taslima Akhter, the Bangladeshi photographer that took the photo, told TIME that she spent the entire day of the collapse taking pictures, and that she felt like she knew the couple from the moment she found them amid the rubble.
"I looked at who they were in their last moments as they stood together and tried to save each other to save their beloved lives," Akhter told TIME.
Akhter is no stranger to taking photos amid devastation. In November, when a Bangladesh factory fire killed more than 100 workers, Akhter was on the scene.
I took photos because they work dawn to dusk for very little money and their lives are considered to be so cheap, worth nothing," she told The New York Times last year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/bangladesh-final-embrace_n_3238492.html
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Most heartbreaking image from Bangladesh---GRAPHIC... (Original Post)
one_voice
May 2013
OP
You can identify some photos as iconic at first glance. This is one of those.
LiberalAndProud
May 2013
#1
K&R to remember the victims, to weep, to keep their memories alive. Such a horrific tragedy... nt
riderinthestorm
May 2013
#6
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)1. You can identify some photos as iconic at first glance. This is one of those.
Too heartbreaking to contemplate for too long.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)2. See. The future that the GOP envisions for us is not that bad.
Paul Ayn Rand Ryan's heart would be warmed.
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. How sad
Triana
(22,666 posts)4. I had posted that here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2768349
Glad to have more background & context to go with it now.
Glad to have more background & context to go with it now.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)5. I almost never, EVER, click on messages with a GRAPHIC warning. But...
...this one I did. I don't know if I can say my life is better for it or anything like that but...I don't regret it. An image to remind us all about love, mortality and how ephemeral our lives are. Make the time on earth count.
PB
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)9. Exceptionally well said.
Thank you for saying it.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)6. K&R to remember the victims, to weep, to keep their memories alive. Such a horrific tragedy... nt
Beacool
(30,251 posts)7. I saw it.
It's heartbreaking. Those poor people.
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)8. Truly, rest in peace.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)10. K & R
It reminds me of Pompei
freshwest
(53,661 posts)11. Remembering they had just as many hopes and lives to enjoy as any of us... Tears. Huffpo comment:
heartbreaking. these poor people. no deserves this. the photo broke my heart. my thoughts and prayers to the entire country. these people mean something to all of us. we are all in this together.
I wish I could take this couple and all the others into my arms right now.
I wish I could take this couple and all the others into my arms right now.