Born Refugee

PrizeShortlist in Installation Art, Finalists in Installation Art
CompanyFreelance
ArtistTurjoy Chowdhury
CategoryProfessional
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This series of photographs depict portraits of babies who are born refugees – in the womb of Rohingya women when crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, and born at refugee camps inside Bangladesh. The future of these babies are called into doubt in the context of them being stateless. Both Myanmar and Bangladesh does not recognise them as their citizen. The babies are aged between 1 day and 3 months old. The approach was to show the babies not as refugees, but as innocent as any other baby would be.