STITCHING TOGETHER: GARMENT WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY
Taslima Akhter | Bangladesh
On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural murder. Dedicating her career to the lives and struggles of garment workers in Bangladesh, she has continued to foster a community rallying together for safer working conditions. In an act of remembrance, healing, and solidarity, Taslima is currently working collaboratively with volunteer quilters to produce commemorations for their loved ones lost to the Rana Plaza collapse.
“It’s true that they’re living in very bad conditions, but I want to show their strength also. Because its is from their strength that we get hope. I don’t want to show them all the time as victims, I want to show them as fighters.”