Mahmud Hossain Opu

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/22/2025, 5:37:49 PM

Thick black smoke billows from a brick kiln, choking the sky as it drifts over nearby villages, a stark reminder of unchecked industrial pollution and its toll on the environment. Dhaka, Bangladesh. (c)

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/23/2025, 5:55:29 PM

Innocence Behind the Fence. [email protected]

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/28/2025, 5:19:48 PM

Nahid Islam, who was named as the head of the newly formed Jatiya Nagarik Party, or National Citizen Party, is projected on a digital screen as he speaks to supporters from a podium, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. For more information follow the link https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-students-political-party-hasina-yunus-7565d2860be1ed4c03bfd9a5beb4f539

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/20/2025, 10:47:08 AM

Covering air pollution is unlike any other crisis—its destruction is silent, yet relentless. In Dhaka, I’ve photographed a city suffocating under dust, smog, and industrial fumes. Brick kilns, a major culprit, spew thick smoke into the air, turning nearby villages into toxic zones. Workers, often without masks, labor in hazardous conditions, their lungs absorbing the unseen poison. Unlike floods or wildfires, pollution lacks immediate spectacle. Making the invisible visible requires patience, light, and keen observation. But the stakes are high—rising PM2.5 levels are turning cities into gas chambers, with health impacts that will outlast us. Dhaka, Bangladesh, February, 2025.

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/18/2025, 8:32:11 PM

Dreaming beyond limits, Korail Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [email protected]

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/25/2025, 6:11:38 PM

An injured Hefazat-e-Islam activist lies on the ground in Dhaka’s Paltan area amid intense clashes with law enforcement, May 05, 2013.

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/14/2025, 1:57:54 PM

While air quality varies dramatically from place to place and day to day, nearly the entire world — about 99% of the global population — is exposed to air at some point that doesn't meet the strict standards set by the World Health Organization. Polluted air, laden with noxious gasses or tiny, invisible particles that burrow into human bodies, kills 7 million people prematurely every year, the U.N. health agency estimates. And for the millions living in some of the world’s smoggiest cities — many of them in Asia like New Delhi; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Bangkok; and Jakarta, Indonesia — bad air might seem inescapable. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/ AP

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/7/2025, 4:48:24 PM

People stand around the vandalized residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's former leader and the father of the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2025. [email protected]

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/7/2025, 10:59:07 AM

Family photographs on the floor in a room of the vandalized residence of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Mahmud Hossain Opu

2/6/2025, 6:55:48 PM

Protesters vandalize a portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's former leader and the father of the country's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, at his residence at Dhanmondi, in Dhaka in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)