{"id":63034,"date":"2024-04-03T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/03\/myanmar-rohingya-refugee-camps-bangladesh-photography-kevin-frayer"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:30","slug":"i-cant-speak-but-my-photos-do-how-a-mute-rohingya-boy-talks-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63034","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t speak but my photos do\u2019: how a mute Rohingya boy talks to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar\u2019s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion for photography<\/p>\n<p>His own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely fully understood by those outside Asom Khan\u2019s closest friends and family but the 15-year-old is able to speak through his art and photography.<\/p>\n<p>From his shelter in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/29\/rohingya-refugees-despair-coxs-bazar-bangladesh-chronic-illness-acc\">Rohingya refugee camps<\/a> of south-east Bangladesh, Khan takes photos to share the stories of his community \u2013 of his elderly neighbours, disabled people, and of women at work and in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/03\/myanmar-rohingya-refugee-camps-bangladesh-photography-kevin-frayer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar\u2019s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion for photographyHis own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely fully understood by those outside Asom Khan\u2019s closest friends a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,327,71,59,82,92,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-bangladesh","category-culture","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-photography","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63034\/revisions\/63035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}