Requiem of Rickshaw

Photojournalism (WIP)

November 2018

As part of National Geographic Photo Camp Kolkata 2018

Words by Saumyakanti Bhattacharya

Mentors: Kirsten Elstner, Evgenia Arbugaeva

Exhibited in National Geographic Photo Camp Exhibition 2019, Kennedy Centre, Washington DC

Requiem of Rickshaw is a story of the rickshaw pullers that remain in the city where the first rickshaw – an iron-bodied contraption that took two strong men in tandem to pull – hit the roads as far back as the late 19 th century.