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Art for Sale Jakir 2010 photo 3/3 Jakir and his son. 25 years have passed since I photographed Jakir alone in the monsoon rain. He is now 32 years old, working at a water purification plant in Saudi Arabia. He returns to Bangladesh regularly to visit his young son, Zahid Hosain, aged 8. The boy is cared for by his uncle on a farm in the Bay of Bengal when he is working in Saudi Arabia. I timed my visit to coincide with Jakir’s return but the photoshoot necessitated a 16-hour journey from Dhaka to the Bay of Bengal by car and assorted ferries. Zahid Hosain bore an uncanny resemblance to the small boy that I had photographed standing in the rain a quarter of a century previously. Zahid, pictured with his father. photograph by Ian Spratt one of three images