Women preparing for battle prior to the crackdown of 25th March 1971.Credit - Rashid Talukder. Courtesy of Drik and Autograph ABP.

Arifa Hafiz measures haunting images against her own memories of the war.

“I don’t know of a single family in Bangladesh that has not been affected by the war in 1971” says Shahidul Alam, director of Drik and curator, in partnership with Autograph ABP, of the photographic exhibition Bangladesh 1971 in Rivington Place. “Each time I come to this project I am always amazed how this war, this conflict, is never really referred to when we talk about issues of genocide - or in relation to the partition of 47 and how Bangladesh is forgotten in terms of the massive story of the legacy of imperialism” says Mark Sealy, director of Autograph.