FT Weekend Magazine - 10.19.2019

34 FT.COM/MAGAZINEOCTOBER19/202019

Thethreephotographsonthese

pagesarefromShahidulAlam’s

series‘StillSheSmiles’(2014),

shortlistedforthePrixPictet

Thispage,top:‘TheOrphanage’

(2014)–HazeraBeagum,a

formersexworker, founded

itinDhakain2008withher

ownsavings

Left:‘Kiss’(2014)–Hazera

rescuedRahat,anabandoned

child,in2013whenhewasonly

afewhoursold

Oppositepage:‘Hazeraat

CrescentLake’(1996)–Hazera

(sitting)andfellowsexworkers

shareajoke;theywere

distributingcondomsinthe

nameofHIV/Aidsprevention

outsidetheBangladeshi

parliamentinDhaka