A City Within a City

“A swarm of workers chipping off old paint, the overwhelming clattering of noise reminiscent of Techno music, and colors so vibrant everywhere you look. In Bangladesh, the shipyard is a ‘nesting doll’—a city within a city, where everything is painstakingly constructed by hand. From schoolboys with knapsacks to workers carrying tons of steel on their heads like ‘stalwart knights’ emerging from the abyss, these images document a world of fire, rust, and incredible human endurance.”