HABI ZULLAH

Habi Zullah was born in Maungdaw, Arakan. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology from Sittwe University in 2005. In 2017, he was forced from his home and fled to Bangladesh with his family. He has a long career working for international NGOs to help assist his community. He has worked with Medicins Sans Frontiers, the British Red Cross Society, Danish Refugee Council and SKUS as a trainer in the education sector.

He has worked as a fixer, translator and researcher on award winning reports and stories about the persecution of the Rohingya. He has worked with the International Fact Finding Mission and Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) as a human rights documenter. Habi has played a crucial role in the reporting of journalists and researchers from the Associated Press, BBC, Al Jazeera, Time Magazine, International State Crime Initiative, Reuters, Sky News as well as numerous freelance journalists.

RO ANAMUL HASAN

Ro Anamul Hasan was born in 1997 in northern Maungdaw, Arakan. He matriculated in 2014 and was about to study physics at university. Unfortunately, because he was Rohingya he was discriminated and not allowed to join university. For Anamul, poetry and photography are like raising voices from an obscure life. He wishes the world to know his pain through his poetry and to see his sufferings through his photography.

His poems have been featured in I am a Rohingya, Rohingya Dreams, Poetry For Humanity, Oxfam, Frontier Myanmar and in several other anthologies. In 2020, he won the first prize in a poetry competition organized by the Danish Refugee Council, and a photography competition organized by the Japanese media. In 2022 his work was recognized by Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His artwork was featured in a short article by Prof Tom Arcaro from Elon University. He is also a contributor to Rohingyatographer Magazine.

SHOWKUTARA

Showkutara was born in Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State. She completed high school in 2015 in Buthidaung. During the violence in August 2017, she fled to Bangladesh with her family and now lives in a refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

She is a teacher, specifically of community children. She is also a researcher and interpreter. Since 2019, she has been a human rights documenter. She is Executive Director of Rohingya Women Association for Education and Development (RWAED). The organization is uniquely positioned due to its extensive experience in providing educational and awareness programs within the Rohingya refugee camps. With a dedicated team and a clear mission, they have a proven track record of delivering results that empower the Rohingya community and create a positive impact on their lives.

RO YASSIN ABDUMONAB

Ro Yassin Abdumonab began his career as a schoolteacher in Myanmar, teaching English, physics, and chemistry. However, in August 2017, escalating violence forced him to abandon his university studies and flee to Bangladesh. After arriving in Bangladesh, he chose to be a visual storyteller and a humanitarian. Now he is a refugee living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp and works as as documentary photographer, mentor, and independent journalist.

He has transitioned into a freelance role, contributing as a writer, translator and fixer for various international and local media outlets, NGOs and research projects. He has contributed photographs for publications such as the New Humanitarian, Reuters, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Amnesty International, France24, the Asia Foundation, The Observer, The Business Standard and The Telegraph. He is also a contributor to Rohingyatographer Magazine.

BURMA TEAM

Four Rohingya currently living inside Rakhine State played important roles in the project Team. For security purposes their names, identities, locations and backgrounds have been withheld. All four reside in different locations in very challenging conditions. Over the course of two years, they slowly found materials that made invaluable contributions to this project.

GREG CONSTANTINE

Greg Constantine is an independent documentary photojournalist, author and researcher. He has spent over 20 years working on long-term global projects that focus on human rights, inequality, discrimination, genocide and the power of the state, like the projects: Nowhere People and Seven Doors. Constantine first began documenting the story of the Rohingya in 2006 with the project Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya. He has been committed to the story of the Rohingya community now for over 18 years.

He is the author of three books including: Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now (2011), Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (2012) and Nowhere People (2015), which was recognized by Photo District News and Mother Jones Magazine as one of the best photo books of 2015. He is also the author of the 7-part series of publications, The Seven Doors Journal.

Exhibitions of his work have been shown in over 40 cities worldwide. A major exhibition of his work titled, Burma’s Path To Genocide was developed by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Constantine was guest curator.

He earned his Ph.D. from Middlesex University in the UK. He’s been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, a 2017 Artist in Residence of Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada and an Independent Scholar & Early Career Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation in the UK.