Rashid Talukder’s Largely Unknown Conflict Photography

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Images of Independence, Finally Free

During Bangladesh’s 1971 struggle for independence, the newspaper photographer Rashid Talukder covered many dramatic and violent clashes but didn’t dare publish some of his pictures in his homeland for more than two decades.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/images-of-independence-finally-free/

But there was another photojournalist there, whom the others didn’t know: Rashid Talukder, who worked for a Bangladeshi newspaper. Though he also made dramatic images, he did not publish them. He couldn’t. Mr. Talukder knew that — unlike the foreign photographers — he would not leave Bangladesh and dash to the next overseas hot spot. He would be staying. And the men behind the executions were among the most powerful in the country.