Photographer Shahidul Alam Revisits a Tragedy that Changed Bangladesh Forever Eight years after the Tazreen Fashions Factory fire in Dhaka, Alam writes about photographing the anti-government protests of the survivors This article is the second part of a series on contemporary art in South Asia guest edited by Skye Arundhati Thomas. Read the previous entry, ‘“Myself Mona Ahmed”: Revisiting Dayanita Singh’s Landmark Photobook’, here. I entered the giant graveyard. It was quiet except for my own footsteps but, in my head, I could hear the screams. Rows of blackened sewing machines, still in orderly lines, reinforced the sense that I was looking at tombstones. There were no flowers here, however. No epitaphs. No mourners.