This piece is a photo-essay on the brickmaking industry in Bangladesh. With its 163 million-strong population, Bangladesh is in the midst of a construction boom and with that expansion comes a need for cheap construction materials. Such high demand has lead brickmaking to thrive. However, despite attempt at regulations, the brick-making industry is still a major source of pollution and its workers are subjected to incredibly perilous conditions. Almost all bricks are made literally by hand using a 150-year-old technology; it is a human factory.
