In a heartfelt tribute to the ethnic cleansing that took place in Bangladesh, Shahidul Alam’s has crafted portraits as a narrative to the racism, social injustice and civil war from the eyes of Kalpana Chakma.

Chakma was an indigenous rights activist that dedicated her life to fighting injustice that plagued the Jumma people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

These portraits were created using laser etchings on straw mats; a reflection of the dire conditions of the persecuted, to which they often slept with nothing but straw mats to separate them from the cold, hard floor.

Furthermore, Shahidul Alam has transposed all elements of Kalpana’s reality into the process of the portraits. For example, a laser beam of binary pulse (reflecting the dichotomy between justice and evil) during the massacres.