This photograph was taken during the second of three visits that Tom Learmonth made to Bangladesh in the early 1980s. The first visit was with a group from Tower Hamlets accompanied by members of the local Bangladeshi community. The second trip was specifically to work on the issues of aid and other aspects of the relationship of Britain and Bangladesh. The photographs resulted in the publication by War on Want of Underdeveloping Bangladesh by Tom Learmonth and Francis Rolt in 1982. The work was also developed as a touring exhibition by Camerawork gallery in London, and was shown across the UK.

TOM LEARMONTH has been taking photographs since the age of ten. Born in Liverpool in 1955, he grew up in Liverpool, India, Australia, North Wales and Bedfordshire. He studied on the first BA in Photographic Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London.

Tom became a documentary photographer working for aid charities, War on Want and Christian Aid and freelancing. He ran community photography programmes in East London. Tom moved to West Wales in the later eighties and ran residential photography courses. He owned Emrys Art Supplies for many years. He has always found landscape, particularly Welsh landscape, a literal bedrock.

8 x 10" on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper