Earlier this week the founder of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine was murdered. But his campaigning work will continue,says photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed“To run a magazine approximately LGBT issues, to campaign on these issues in Bangladesh, and you absorb to be a very plucky person,very bold,” says photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed. “Xulhaz Mannan was the one who made Roopbaan magazine happen. He was a very special man.”[br]Speaking to the Guardian shortly after Xulhaz Mannan’s murder by Islamist extremists, or Ahmed explained that it was the repression of the LGBT community in his home country of Bangladesh that had inspired his own work,a long-term photography project entitled Inner Face. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com