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VILLAGE BOY FROM BANGLADESH

My mother's earrings

This is a photo of my family in my long island home

Tenement Building

Pasteles en Hoja

Our Life-style as a New Yorker

(Islamic Decor in Arabic) The name 'Ali, the helper' written on the left, and the supplication 'Naad-e-Ali' by the Holy Prophet of Islam written on the right.

Supplication as Islamic Art

Upper West Side, Manhattan

Pictures of my mom, grandma, her sister, and aunt in Trinidad

The word immigration and the many thoughts that come to mind, illegal, passport, security, citizenship, poverty etc.

How I arrived here, USA

Fast Food and Gas Station

The house my mother first lived in when she moved to the United States

My parents at a grocery store

A pen From long ago

My Neighborhood

My father and I about a year after we emigrated to New York

Icon of St. Nicholas

Icon of St. Nicholas

Governor's Isand in New York

Saint of Protection

Map of Puerto Rico

This photo was taken in 2012 which showed a part of my family in my mother side. From the right side to the left side, they were my uncle, me, my aunt, my grandma, my cousin sister, my grandpa, my mother and my cousin brother. In my family, at that time, my uncle and my cousin brother have been living in the U.S. for 10 years at least. At that moment, it was the first time that they came back. During those years, we contacted each other only by cellphone. I still remembered that when my cousin brother was born in the U.S., my uncle took many live videos and sent them to us via the international mail. It was taking few months. During the time my uncle’s family was living in the U.S., my uncle and his wife were working so hard. My uncle worked as a sushi chef for 8 years. His wife was studying and getting a nurse. You know, my uncle learned cooking from the beginning when he just arrived. Before that, he was doing some business. Year after year, they bought cars and house, then, their second kid, my cousin brother, was born. Their lives were getting brighter.

Back in the day they used this cloth strainer to make coffee.

This is the Old San Juan, which is around the area my parents first bought their apartment.

Short-term Apartment Rentals

Military Uniform

Russian Officers Uniform

The Clothing factory

Hand-held fireworks

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