This portrait has been photographed on 15 November 2014 at Haripur in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Mrs. Nurjahan is fighting for her survival for many years but does not know how long she would be able to do that all by herself. Her husband escaped from life permanently and left her all alone. Since then she is taking care of her family which consists of her mother, daughter, one brother, and one sister who is also a widow. She works as a cook in Al Arab Bricks and gets Tk-5000 ($65) as salary each month. This amount is not enough but still, she manages to take care of every one of her family.
She is from Satkhira but working in Sylhet at present. She will return to Satkhira once this brickfield will close down its’ production for this season. I asked what she would do. She answered; “I don’t know yet, maybe fishing, maybe begging. Whatever suits me I would do that.”