"My photo book ‘Survivors’ is not only an important presentation of my 10 years' work, but it is also significant to me in many ways. Surviving in a poor country - facing adversity daily - is akin to a lifetime of tragedy. So, in a number of ways, the images presented on these pages depict my own experiences as well. My journeys connect me to the many characters. Sometimes, I had to run, take a ride on the roof of a moving train, sleep on a flooded floor, and spend many hours walking the maze of avenues through sprawling city slums.
While photography is a big task, my willingness to serve the people whom I photograph is even more challenging.
I am gifting a business/source of income to each family I am able to help from my book ‘Survivors’. Finding people from the book whom I captured 5-15 years ago, talking/sharing ideas with them, finding the right business, and educating them, and monitoring them become tougher than photography. But I believe every amazing achievement starts with an impossibility. Now, after seeing these happy families of Survivors, I realize that, when many ordinary people come together and do small things, they can change the world.
- GMB Akash
30 июл 2023
