गैलरी – वस्तुएँ, चित्र और संकेत

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

Mapping the journey to help

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · participatory map

Researcher’s note

Participants laid out their own help-seeking pathways on paper — using drawings, Bengali text, and physical objects they brought from home. A chain, a padlock, red cloth, keys, medicine packets. Each object was placed by a community member to mark something they had encountered on the road to care. The journey runs from first signs of distress through traditional healers, family decisions, and eventually formal services — not as a straight line.

objects tools of care artworks

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Identifier: field-mapping
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
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छवि विवरण

A long paper sheet on a wooden table showing a community-drawn mental health pathway map with Bengali text in speech and thought bubbles, hand-drawn figures of people and animals, physical objects including red cloth, a chain, a padlock and keys, and paint bottles, connected by arrows

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent not documented Dhaka, Bangladesh

Saying it without words

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

This image is from a participatory research session at a mental health facility. The individual chose to be photographed and the image is included as part of the research record.

Researcher’s note

"This is what it looks like when my body tries to say what I cannot." During a participatory session at the National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka, this participant chose movement and gesture over speech. She said words had not been enough. This photograph is included with her knowledge as part of the research documentation.

gestures and bodies places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent not documented

Scope: Knowledge of photography noted; public publication scope not documented.

Re-consent: Post-crisis re-consent not recorded.

Institutional permission: Institutional publication permission not recorded.

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Identifier: field-expression
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
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IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A woman in a bright blue jacket and yellow-printed clothes seated on an orange plastic chair, arms raised in opposite directions expressively — one pointing upward, one extending to the side — in a tiled institutional room with a Bengali poster on the wall

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research does not stop

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

Mid-conversation in a Dhaka neighbourhood when the monsoon arrived. The team was conducting community fieldwork on mental health help-seeking pathways — asking where people go, what they call their distress, and what stops them from getting care. The rain was not part of the plan.

places

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Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-rain
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Two people standing in a narrow rain-soaked urban alley in Bangladesh — one sheltering from the heavy rain with a hand over their head, the other holding a large grey umbrella, facing each other in conversation, with colourful market stalls blurred behind them

कंटेंट नोट

This image documents the use of chains and padlocks to restrain people experiencing mental health crises — a practice observed across Bangladesh and other countries. It is included because documentation is part of accountability. Content warning: physical restraint of a person with a mental health condition, human rights violation.

देखभाल में बाधाएं फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh

Chain

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

Researcher’s note

"I could not look away. This is what the absence of accessible mental health care looks like in practice. A heavy chain and a padlock on a concrete floor. And the people standing around it — family members who had no other option they could see. This image exists so that people who make decisions about mental health systems are forced to look at what those decisions produce." — Field researcher's note, 2022

objects tools of care

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La puerta que no abre · Mexico

Compared through objects, places and captions—never facial expression or inferred emotion.

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Scope: No face is shown; the image documents an object and setting.

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Identifier: field-chain
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A heavy rusted metal chain coiled on a stained concrete floor with a padlock attached to a wooden post, surrounded by the feet and lower bodies of several people standing in a dark room

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

What the community said

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · participatory map

Researcher’s note

Post-it notes from a community consultation. Participants wrote their experiences, barriers, and ideas in Bengali — without being asked to use clinical language. Headings visible on the wall include "Positive" and "Negative". The wall holds more precise knowledge about lived experience than any standardised questionnaire in a foreign language.

artworks

Consent and rights record

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Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-postits
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A white board or wall covered densely with handwritten post-it notes in pink, yellow, green and orange — all in Bengali script — arranged in a loose cluster with some notes clustered under headings including Positive and Negative

कंटेंट नोट

This image shows a person being brought to a psychiatric hospital with their hands restrained. It documents a real moment at NIMH, Dhaka. Content warning: physical restraint, visible distress, institutional setting.

देखभाल में बाधाएं फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent not documented Dhaka, Bangladesh

Arriving at the gate

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A man is being brought through the entrance of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka — hands bound, supported by a family member or caregiver. His wrists are tied with cloth. He is barefoot. The building entrance is clinical, tiled, institutional. This is not a rare moment. This is how people arrive. The question is not why this happened — it is what kind of system produces only these choices for families in crisis.

gestures and bodies places tools of care

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent not documented

Scope: Public image publication consent is not recorded in the current archive.

Re-consent: Re-consent after crisis is not recorded.

Institutional permission: Institutional publication permission not recorded.

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Identifier: field-nimh-entry
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A shirtless barefoot young man with his hands bound behind his back in dark cloth is being embraced and supported by an older man in a khaki shirt at the tiled entrance lobby of a hospital, with a Bengali sign on the wall and a gated entrance behind them

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Rural Bangladesh, December 2025

Where people go to think

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A field researcher pauses at the base of a centuries-old banyan tree in rural Bangladesh. These trees are gathering points — for shade, for conversation, for prayer, sometimes for laying out the problems you cannot take home. In several community interviews, people named specific trees, rivers, and outdoor places as the spaces where they first allowed themselves to acknowledge that something was wrong. Before they told anyone. Before any service. The tree came first.

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Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-banyan
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Rural Bangladesh, December 2025
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A person in a grey-white shirt and black trousers leaning forward slightly against the massive multi-trunked base of an ancient banyan tree, with long aerial roots hanging down and open rice fields visible in the distance

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh, December 2025

The tree wrapped in red

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

Red cloth is tied around the roots and trunk of a large banyan tree at a village sacred site. Small paint pots have been placed as offerings. Across Bangladesh and the broader region, particular trees, stones, graves, and outdoor spaces carry healing significance. Families visit them when someone is distressed — before, after, or instead of formal care. Understanding where people go first — and why — is not a detour from the question of mental health support. It is the question.

places rituals objects

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Identifier: field-sacred-tree
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh, December 2025
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

The extensive roots and lower trunk of a large banyan tree wrapped in bright red cloth at what appears to be a sacred outdoor site, with small colourful paint or incense holders placed among the roots and dappled sunlight through the branches

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Dhaka, Bangladesh

The neighbourhood gathers

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A crowd forms around a street performer in a dense Dhaka neighbourhood — adults, children, elders, all in a rough circle. No invitation was sent. Community cohesion like this exists alongside profound mental health stigma. Both are true at once. Several of the people in this circle, or people who live close to them, will at some point experience a mental health crisis. Some will be helped. Others will be chained. Understanding why some and not others — what social factors, what relationships, what language — is part of what this research tries to map.

places gestures and bodies

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-community-life
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A dense crowd of perhaps sixty people of all ages forming a circle around a seated street performer in a busy Dhaka neighbourhood, with market stalls and painted shop fronts in the background and a Bangladesh flag visible near the performer

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2024

Talking in the alley

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A community fieldwork conversation in a narrow Dhaka alley. Three researchers speak with a community member — the kind of interview that does not happen in a clinic, does not use a standardised questionnaire, and does not produce a diagnosis. It asks: What do you call it? Where do you go? Who do you tell? What stops you? The goal is to understand help-seeking as it actually happens — not as services imagine it happens.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

Archival metadata · Researcher mode

Identifier: field-interview-alley
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2024
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Three researchers — a man in a blue patterned shirt, a man in a striped polo with a lanyard, and a woman in a black floral outfit — speaking with an older man in a white vest in a narrow Dhaka alley lined with market stalls, a pink bank advertisement poster visible on a shop front

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

At the dargah — a second interview

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A second interview at the Gaushia Sufi Darbar Sharif — this time photographed from the main chamber, showing the full space: the shrine stage with its framed portrait, burning candle, and dark red curtains; the striped mat on the floor; the large banner in Bengali announcing the dargah's name. The researcher sits with a notebook. This photograph shows not just the conversation but the entire spiritual architecture within which healing is understood here. That architecture matters for mental health work.

landscapes

Curator-confirmed visual echoes

The Weight of Water · UK

Compared through objects, places and captions—never facial expression or inferred emotion.

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-dargah-interior
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Interior view of the Gaushia Sufi Darbar Sharif shrine — two men seated cross-legged on a striped mat facing each other in conversation, with a raised platform behind them holding a framed portrait, a burning candle, and dark red curtains, and a large Bengali text banner across the back wall

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Rural Bangladesh

On the river

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A wooden boat crosses a wide Bangladeshi river at dawn in winter mist. Two boatmen stand at either end with bamboo poles; passengers sit between them. Rivers are a recurring presence in interviews about isolation, distance, and the difficulty of reaching care — "there is a river between us and the hospital" was a phrase used by more than one participant in different districts. This image does not illustrate that difficulty. It shows the crossing happening anyway.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-boat-mist
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Rural Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Five people on a long wooden country boat crossing a wide grey misty river at dawn — two boatmen standing at the prow and stern with long poles, three passengers seated in between, with a flat sandy riverbank visible in the pale background

पीड़ा और तकलीफ़ फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

The open water

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A wide river in Bangladesh, photographed from a boat. The horizon is open; the water is calm; clouds are building on the right. Several participants used water imagery to describe internal states that they could not name directly — something vast, something that could shift, something with no visible edge. We do not know what this particular river was called when the researcher took this photograph. That feels right.

landscapes

Curator-confirmed visual echoes

The Weight of Water · UK

Compared through objects, places and captions—never facial expression or inferred emotion.

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-river-horizon
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A wide expanse of blue-green river in Bangladesh photographed from a low vantage point, with cumulus clouds building on the right side of a pale blue sky and a faint treeline visible at the distant horizon

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

Making together

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · artwork

Researcher’s note

Three women work together painting a large mandala on a floor — traditional alpana or rangoli-style design in red, yellow, green, and white. Paint pots and brushes scattered around them. This was part of a community well-being session, not a research interview. It is included in this record because sessions like this — making things together, being absorbed in a collective form — were consistently described as helpful in ways that formal care had not been. No diagnosis was mentioned. No distress was named. Something was being expressed anyway.

artworks gestures and bodies

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-mandala
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Two women seen from above working on a large floor mandala painting in red, yellow, green and white — a central circular flower motif surrounded by petal and scroll designs — with paint pots, brushes and a water bowl visible beside them

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Dhaka, Bangladesh

The everyday around it

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A busy open-air market in Bangladesh. Pink and orange pottery, baskets, household goods laid out on the ground. Children clambering on bins. A woman in a bright floral sari stopping to look. Ordinary life going on — and within it, somewhere, the experiences this dictionary is trying to understand. Mental health distress does not pause for markets. It happens here too, usually unrecognised, usually unnamed, sometimes managed through exactly this kind of being-among-people.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-market
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

An outdoor market scene in Bangladesh with colourful pink, orange and red ceramics and baskets spread on the ground, a woman in a bright teal and floral sari examining goods, children nearby, and a crowd of shoppers behind them near ramshackle market stalls

संकट और अनिश्चितता फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

Crossing at night

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

Taken from the back of a bamboo raft at night, crossing a river with city lights reflected on the water. Two figures visible — one seated, one standing with an oar. This was taken during fieldwork travel. The researcher noted: "We had been talking all day about where people go when they cannot cope. On the crossing home it occurred to me that almost no one we spoke to had a word for getting better — only for getting through."

landscapes

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-night-boat
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

View from inside a bamboo raft at night, looking toward the bow where two silhouettes are visible — one seated and one standing with an oar — with soft city lights and their reflections visible across a dark river on both sides

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Rural Bangladesh

Still water

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A moored wooden fishing boat near the bank of a green floodplain. A single tree rises from the flooded land in the middle distance. The light is overcast but bright. This image was taken between fieldwork sessions. The researcher wrote no note about it — it exists only as a photograph, which is its own kind of record.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-landscape
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Rural Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A wooden fishing boat with bundled nets and canvas moored at the grassy edge of a flooded green landscape in Bangladesh, with a single large tree rising from a small island in the middle of still brown-green water and cumulus clouds in a pale blue sky

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Dhaka, Bangladesh

Still asking questions

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A second fieldwork interview in a flooded alley, this time in heavy rain. A researcher holds an umbrella. A community member stands under an awning to stay dry. Another researcher and a community member stand between them. The data collection continues. Fieldwork for a project like this does not stop because conditions are difficult. Neither does the distress that the research is trying to understand.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

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Identifier: field-rain-alley-2
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Four people sheltering from rain in a flooded Dhaka alley — a woman researcher in an orange floral dress with a lanyard stands against a red wall, a community member in a white lungi faces a male researcher in a dark shirt holding an umbrella, another researcher visible in the background

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh

At the dargah

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

This image shows a research interview at a Sufi healing shrine. Both individuals are shown in a professional research context.

Researcher’s note

A researcher interviews a healer (pir) at the Gaushia Sufi Darbar Sharif — a traditional spiritual space where many families bring a member in mental distress before, or instead of, visiting a hospital. For a significant proportion of people in Bangladesh, the dargah is the first known route to care. What the pir calls the problem, how they explain it, and what they prescribe: all of this shapes what recovery means to families. Understanding it is not optional for culturally sensitive mental health work.

places

Consent and rights record

Status: Consent record under review

Scope: Consent scope is not published in the current record.

Archival metadata · Researcher mode

Identifier: field-dargah
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Two men sitting cross-legged on a striped woven mat inside a Sufi shrine — a younger man with a notebook facing an elderly man in white clothing with a white beard, with dark red curtains, a framed portrait, and a burning candle visible behind them on a low stage

कंटेंट नोट

This image includes identifiable people in a potentially sensitive healing context. Public publication consent is not documented in the current archive record, so identities remain protected.

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent not documented Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Inside a decorated healing space

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A room is densely decorated with reflective garlands, cloth and devotional objects. Several adults sit on floor mats. The photograph records a care setting, but the purpose of the gathering and each person’s interpretation must not be inferred from appearance alone.

places rituals gestures and bodies

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Scope: Public image publication consent is not recorded.

Institutional permission: Site or practitioner permission is not recorded.

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Identifier: field-healing-room
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Several adults seated on patterned floor mats inside a small room decorated with colourful metallic garlands and cloth

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Objects prepared for ritual use

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

Researcher’s note

A glass jar, knotted cord, printed papers and a hand-marked cloth are arranged on a patterned surface. The record preserves the material grouping without claiming what any object did, what it was called locally, or whether everyone understood it in the same way.

objects rituals tools of care

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Consent and rights record

Status: No contributor consent claimed

Scope: Object record with no identifiable person shown.

Archival metadata · Researcher mode

Identifier: field-ritual-materials-a
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A glass jar, a knotted brown cord, two red printed papers and a white cloth marked with red symbols arranged on patterned fabric

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh · exact location withheld

The same materials, another arrangement

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

Researcher’s note

A second view shows how papers, cord, a jar and a bag were placed together during documentation. Repeated photographs help preserve relationships between objects while still requiring participant explanation before meaning is assigned.

objects rituals tools of care

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Consent and rights record

Status: No contributor consent claimed

Scope: Object record with no identifiable person shown.

Archival metadata · Researcher mode

Identifier: field-ritual-materials-b
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
Rights: Rights and licence review required before reuse
IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

Red printed papers, a white cloth with red markings, a knotted cord, a glass jar and a translucent bag arranged on patterned fabric

कंटेंट नोट

This image includes identifiable people in a sensitive care setting. Consent for public publication is not documented, so identities remain protected.

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent not documented Bangladesh · exact location withheld

A practitioner at work after dark

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A seated practitioner works beside an illuminated table of papers, containers and other materials while people gather around. The image raises questions about where care is offered, who is trusted and how families move between informal and formal systems.

places rituals tools of care gestures and bodies

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Status: Consent not documented

Scope: Public image publication consent is not recorded.

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Identifier: field-night-practitioner
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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A seated practitioner in white clothing working at a brightly lit table while several adults stand around in a dark setting

कंटेंट नोट

This object may be associated with physical restraint and human-rights concerns. No person is shown.

देखभाल में बाधाएं फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Chain and padlock — object record

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

Researcher’s note

A rusted chain and padlock are photographed away from any person. The object can document restraint without exposing the identity of someone who may have experienced it. Interpretation still requires context: possession of a chain does not establish how it was used.

objects tools of care

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Identifier: field-chain-object
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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A length of rusted metal chain with a brass-coloured padlock arranged on a pale surface

कंटेंट नोट

This image includes an identifiable adult and child in a sensitive context. Public publication consent is not documented, so identities remain protected.

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent not documented Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Care and ritual on the pavement

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

An adult sits beside an array of printed materials and small objects on a pavement while a child rests nearby. The setting brings care, livelihood and public space together. The archive does not infer diagnosis, relationship or treatment effect from the scene.

places rituals tools of care gestures and bodies

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Identifier: field-pavement-practice
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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An adult and a child seated beside printed papers and small arranged objects on a pavement next to a weathered wall

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Printed protective paper

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

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A red printed sheet combines a multi-armed figure, grids and circular symbols with Bengali text. It is recorded as a material artefact. Its intended purpose, name and interpretation require explanation from the person who made, distributed or used it.

objects rituals artworks

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Identifier: field-printed-protection
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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छवि विवरण

A close-up of a red printed paper showing a multi-armed figure, a grid, a circular diagram and Bengali text

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Leaves, papers and a knotted cord

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · object

Researcher’s note

Fresh leaves are placed beside printed papers, a marked cloth and a knotted cord. The grouping suggests a sequence or kit, but the photograph alone cannot establish whether the materials relate to protection, healing, diagnosis, payment or another practice.

objects rituals tools of care

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Identifier: field-leaves-papers-cord
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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छवि विवरण

Fresh green leaves, two red printed papers, a white cloth marked in red and a knotted brown cord arranged on a table

कंटेंट नोट

This image records a potentially sensitive care or exchange setting. No face is shown, but the context and consent scope remain under review.

मदद मांगने का सफ़र फ़ील्ड दस्तावेज़ीकरण Consent record under review Bangladesh · exact location withheld

Bowl, liquid and money

Date not recorded · Moner Kotha field research team · photograph

Researcher’s note

A metal bowl, a small cup of pink liquid and folded currency are placed beside a seated person. The image documents an exchange setting but does not establish whether the money was a fee, gift, offering or unrelated possession.

objects rituals tools of care

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Status: Consent record under review

Scope: The person is not facially identifiable; publication scope remains under review.

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Identifier: field-bowl-payment
Collection: Bangladesh field documentation
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Moner Kotha field research team
Coverage: Bangladesh · exact location withheld
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IIIF: Manifest withheld pending consent and preservation review

छवि विवरण

A metal bowl holding a small cup of pink liquid beside folded currency and the lower body of a seated person

कंटेंट नोट

This entry discusses depression and difficulty with daily functioning.

पीड़ा और तकलीफ़ No contributor consent claimed UK

The Weight of Water

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I photographed this still pool during a period when I could not get out of bed for weeks. The surface looked calm. Nothing underneath was calm. I kept returning to this image when I needed to explain to someone what depression felt like without using the word.

landscapes

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The open water · Bangladesh

Compared through objects, places and captions—never facial expression or inferred emotion.

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Identifier: community-g1
Collection: Editorial prototype gallery
Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Editorial illustration using Unsplash photography
Coverage: UK
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A still dark body of water reflecting the sky, with faint ripples at the edges

मदद मांगने का सफ़र No contributor consent claimed Bangladesh

শিকড় — Roots

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আমার মায়ের হাত। তিনি আমার সবচেয়ে বড় সহায়। মানসিক চাপের সময় তার হাত ধরে বসে থাকতাম।

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gestures and bodies

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Identifier: community-g2
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Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Editorial illustration using Unsplash photography
Coverage: Bangladesh
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छवि विवरण

Two pairs of hands — an older and a younger person — held together gently

कंटेंट नोट

This entry discusses barriers to accessing mental health care.

देखभाल में बाधाएं No contributor consent claimed Mexico

La puerta que no abre — The door that does not open

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This is the door of the psychiatric clinic where I tried to get help three times before I was seen. I photograph closed doors now. I also photograph open ones. There are more open ones than I thought when I started.

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Barriers to care · Dhaka

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Date: Date not recorded
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Coverage: Mexico
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छवि विवरण

A closed heavy door with peeling paint, in a corridor with fluorescent light

मदद मांगने का सफ़र No contributor consent claimed Jordan

اللحظة التي قررت أن أطلب المساعدة — The moment I decided to ask for help

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الفجر في الحديقة. كانت هذه أول مرة أجلس في الخارج بعد أشهر. قررت في ذلك اليوم أن أتصل بطبيب. لم يكن الأمر درامياً — كان مجرد ضوء.

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Date: Date not recorded
Creator: Editorial illustration using Unsplash photography
Coverage: Jordan
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छवि विवरण

Early morning light falling across a garden, golden rays through leaves

कंटेंट नोट

This entry discusses grief after the death of a family member.

पीड़ा और तकलीफ़ No contributor consent claimed France

Les objets qui restent — The objects that remain

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After my brother died, I gathered the small things he left: a worn pencil, a bus ticket, a stone from a beach. I kept them in a bowl. Some days I would just look at the bowl. The objects held what I could not.

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Coverage: France
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छवि विवरण

A small ceramic bowl containing a worn pencil, a folded piece of paper, and two smooth stones

सफलता और उबरना No contributor consent claimed Pakistan

راستہ — The path forward

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یہ وہ راستہ ہے جس پر میں ہر صبح چلتا ہوں۔ چلنا میری دوا بن گئی۔ نہ دوائی، نہ ڈاکٹر — بس چلنا۔ لیکن مجھے معلوم ہے یہ سب کے لیے نہیں ہوتا۔

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Coverage: Pakistan
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छवि विवरण

A narrow tree-lined path in soft morning light, footsteps visible in the earth

अभिव्यक्ति और संचार No contributor consent claimed UK

Hands that shape, hands that hold

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I am deaf and I use BSL. My hands carry everything I say. During my worst period of anxiety, I stopped signing. My hands forgot what to do. Coming back to signing — finding words again — was my recovery.

gestures and bodies

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छवि विवरण

Two hands mid-gesture, caught in motion against a dark background

सफलता और उबरना No contributor consent claimed West Bengal, India

আলো ফেরে — Light returns

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মনে হয়েছিল আর কখনো ভালো লাগবে না। এখন লাগে। (I thought I would never feel well again. Now I do.) এটুকুই।

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Coverage: West Bengal, India
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छवि विवरण

Sunlight breaking through dark clouds over water, a beam of golden light on the surface

फ़ोटो गैलरी

Dignity before documentary value

Mapping the journey to help

Saying it without words

Research does not stop

Chain

What the community said

Arriving at the gate

Where people go to think

The tree wrapped in red

The neighbourhood gathers

Talking in the alley

At the dargah — a second interview

On the river

The open water

Making together

The everyday around it

Crossing at night

Still water

Still asking questions

At the dargah

Inside a decorated healing space

Objects prepared for ritual use

The same materials, another arrangement

A practitioner at work after dark

Chain and padlock — object record

Care and ritual on the pavement

Printed protective paper

Leaves, papers and a knotted cord

Bowl, liquid and money

The Weight of Water

শিকড় — Roots

La puerta que no abre — The door that does not open

اللحظة التي قررت أن أطلب المساعدة — The moment I decided to ask for help

Les objets qui restent — The objects that remain

راستہ — The path forward

Hands that shape, hands that hold

আলো ফেরে — Light returns

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