Asia, Bangladesh, Khulna district, Bani Shanta, one of the 14 official brothels in Bangladesh, a Muslim nation where prostitution is considered legal.
07/2011. View of the brothel with a prostitute walking when the Pashur river is in flood. The brothel is located in the Bay of Bengala where sea level rise is getting dangerous and dangerous for the pronstitutes living in the Bani Shanta brothel which can goes under water at any time now. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Rosina and a client are getting in Rosina's house. Rosina doesn?t know exactly her age but she says she is around 20-22 years old. She is just arrived 2 months ago because her husband sold her to a "shordarni" one of the ?mothers householder?. A shordarni is a woman, ex-prostitute, who had enouth money to buy houses and prostitutes and now lives taking rent and a percentage on every clients to the prostitutes. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Pia smoking a sigarette in public. To smoke in public is forbidden by prejudiced for a woman in Bangladesh, only prostitutes feels and is free to smoke everywhere. Pia is 25 years old and her family doesn?t know where she is and what she is doing. Her father promised her as spouse but she didn?t want to get married that man, that?s why she decided to run away from her family. She fell in love with a man that after a while decided to sell her to one of the ?mother householder? in the brothel and from that moment she became a prostitute. She has now two babies living with her in the brothel, she had them when she got married with a client who run away just after the second child came. She says that life in the brothel is getting difficult and difficult from when the Mongla port is closed, there are only few clients and moreover local clients with few money to lose. She asks to every single client between 150 to 200 thaka (2 euro) and pays for her small house 500 thaka a month. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. A prostitute going with a client in her home. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Pia and Zosna contend for a client. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. View of the brothel with a prostitute and her children when the Pashur river is in flood. The brothel is located in the Bay of Bengala where sea level rise is getting dangerous and dangerous for the pronstitutes living in the Bani Shanta brothel which can goes under water at any time now. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. View of the brothel when the Pashur river is in flood. The brothel is located in the Bay of Bengala where sea level rise is getting dangerous and dangerous for the pronstitutes living in the Bani Shanta brothel which can goes under water at any time now. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011, Asia, Bangladesh, Khulna district, Bani Shanta, one of the 14 official brothels in Bangladesh, a Muslim nation where prostitution is considered legal. A prostitute having bath in the Pashur river, all the prostitute are used to bath in the dirty river water thats because the lack of bathroom in the brothel. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Zosna 45 years old getting ready for a day of work. She works in the brothel from 15 years and before of this she was working in a rice factory. she decide to quite her job in the factory because her husband left her when her daughter was only 1 years old and with the factory salary she was not able to support her daugther. Her daughter is now 13 years old she knows what her mother does and she feels ashamed. Her daughter is living with her grandmother in Bagagharat ( a city a couple of hours from the brothel) and thanks to the money Zosna is able to send home she is going to school. Zosna visits her daughter twice a year. Life for Zosna is difficoult at least twice because she is getting old and the few clients remained they prefer to go together with younger prostitute but fortunatly she has some fixed clients and she is still able to earn enough to sustein her daughter. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Zorina making up and getting ready for a day of work. Zorina doesn?t know exactly her age but she says she is around 20-22 years old. She is just arrived 2 months ago because her husband sold her to a "shordarni" one of the ?mothers householder?. A shordarni is a woman, ex-prostitute, who had enouth money to buy houses and prostitutes and now lives taking rent and a percentage on every clients to the prostitutes. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Rosina waiting for a client outside her home. Rosina doesn?t know exactly her age but she says she is around 20-22 years old. She is just arrived 2 months ago because her husband sold her to a "shordarni" one of the ?mothers householder?. A shordarni is a woman, ex-prostitute, who had enouth money to buy houses and prostitutes and now lives taking rent and a percentage on every clients to the prostitutes. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Saheda Begum is taking care to an her friend' s baby, working in the brothel and leaving next door. She arrived to Bani Shanta when she was 15/16 years old. She worked as prostitute in the brothel for almost 20 years but she does't want to tell her story because as she says " it is too sad ti hear my story". Now she is a "shordarni" and it means that she is the boss of the prostitute working in her houses, she gets rent from them and also a percentage on their profit. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Rupali, 27 years old cookin in her small house where she receive client and lives her daily life. She got married when she was very young and after few months she was sold by her husband to the brothel. She is young and beautiful but with the crisis caused by climate changes and the reduced discharge of the river and the capacity of the port of Mongla she earns only 150 taka (1,5 euro) for every single meeting with a client. She pays for her small corrugated iron house a rent of 500 hungred taka (5 euro) a month. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto
07/2011. Posters in a prostitute house. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Two prostitute making advances to a client. Two prostitute contend for a client. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
7/2011. Prostitutes contending a client. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. View of the brothel with a prostitute washing dishes when the Pashur river is in flood. The brothel is located in the Bay of Bengala where sea level rise is getting dangerous and dangerous for the pronstitutes living in the Bani Shanta brothel which can goes under water at any time now. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. A local ngo with the support of the Italian Mani Tese has just started a project of alternative work to save the prostitutes from misery. The prostitutes are producing string, sold to local factory producing local handycraft. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. Pia at home with her younger son. Pia is 25 years old and her family doesn?t know where she is and what she is doing. Her father promised her as spouse but she didn?t want to get married that man, that?s why she decided to run away from her family. She fell in love with a man that after a while decided to sell her to one of the ?mother householder? in the brothel and from that moment she became a prostitute. She has now two babies living with her in the brothel, she had them when she got married with a client who run away just after the second child came. She says that life in the brothel is getting difficult and difficult from when the Mongla port is closed, there are only few clients and moreover local clients with few money to lose. She asks to every single client between 150 to 200 thaka (2 euro) and pays for her small house 500 thaka a month. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto 
07/2011. View of port of Mongla the second largest in the country before climate changes has reduced the discharge of the river Pashur. © Alessandro Grassani / LUZphoto
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