Final Embrace is a photograph showing two victims in the rubble of the April 2013 collapse of the eight storey Rana Plaza building in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh.[1] The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Taslima Akhter, was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo (single) in the "spot news category".[2][3][4][5] It was also selected among Time magazine's "Top 10 Photos of 2013".[6]
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Artist | Taslima Akhter |
Completion date | April 2013 (2013-04) |
Medium | Photograph |
Subject | 2013 Savar building collapse |
Akhter is a member of Nari Sanghati (a women's welfare organization), and a member of leftist political group Gana Sanghati Andolon. She works as a teacher at Pathshala, a school of photography in Dhaka.[7]
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