''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.
The photograph, taken by freelance photographer
Taslima Akhter, was awarded third prize in the
World Press Photo (single) in the "spot news category".
It was also selected among ''
Time
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'' magazine's "Top 10 Photos of 2013".
[Kira Pollack]
"Time Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013"
''Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
'', Accessed 16 November 2016.
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
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
.
See also
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List of photographs considered the most important
References
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Color photographs
Photography in Bangladesh
2013 in Bangladesh
2013 works
2013 in art
21st century in photography
2010s photographs