Bangladeshi photojournalist Saiful Huq Omi has been documenting the Rohingya in his home country for sometime now and the stories he tell have touched certain people the wrong way. These people are mainly the Myanmar government and ‘powerful forces in Bangladesh who benefit from the human smuggling business’.

But he perseveres on and his photographs (he also shoots the Rohingya in Malaysia) are powerfully human.

You can check it out at the New York Times Lens blog.