Seven years ago, Pablo Bartholomew reached for a box on the top shelf of his cupboard and recoiled in horror. The film inside was damp. The box contained 30-year-old slides, or reversal film, from an assignment forNational Geographic, for which Bartholomew had photographed nearly 15,000 Bangladeshi men building the country's largest dam. The effort had been intense – the men had closed the mouth of the Feni River to control its flooding and create a freshwater reservoir for irrigation. But Bartholomew’s labour, as it turned out, had become food for termites.
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