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Ian Rutherford: Tajul Climbs a Tree, 2003
51w x 61.2h cms
unsigned artist’s print
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...£28 was all it cost to transform his life but even this low figure would have been way beyond his family's means in one of the poorest countries of the world. A few months later I returned to Bangladesh and travelled to his remote village. I was talking to his parents when I was called outside to see what Tajul was doing. Forgetting about my fear of heights, I quickly scrambled to the top of the 20 foot kalo jam tree he was climbing to capture this moment - something he could never have even attempted before."

 
Click, a collection of photography, 18th March - 4th April  
 
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