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COTM | BTG SHORTLIST 2025
EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD 

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Enamur Reza

The Silent Violence

Enamur Reza is a documentary photographer questioning transboundary water politics, climate justice, displacement, and marginalized communities. With a background in Architecture, he brings a spatial understanding of impermanence and transformation to his visual storytelling. His work captures the human cost of environmental and systemic crises, communities uprooted by river erosion, land loss, and forced migration, where landscapes shift and lives remain in flux.

He navigates the intersection of the personal and political, portraying resilience amid uncertainty. For him, photography is not just documentation but a way to question and reframe erased narratives. Through portraits, landscapes, and archival material, he visualizes memories of loss, resistance, and survival.

The Silent Violence


This project documents the human cost of transboundary water mismanagement in Bangladesh, where upstream interventions like the Farakka and Gajaldoba barrages have disrupted natural river flows, leading to droughts, river erosion, salinity intrusion, and widespread displacement. Spanning the Teesta, Jamuna, and the southern coastal regions, the lived experiences of ecological refugees through photography and story. Once-thriving communities now face repeated loss of land, livelihood, and cultural identity. My family’s history of displacement by river erosion anchors this work, connecting the deeply personal to broader systemic injustices. The project visualizes the slow violence of engineered neglect largely ignored in mainstream narratives and calls for equitable water governance, climate justice, and community resilience.

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