‘It looked like a scene from thousands of years ago’: Jashim Salam’s best phone picture

A moment at a Rohingya refugee camp gave the photojournalist a sense of the surreal

In the shadow of Tangkhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, photojournalist Jashim Salam stood by a projection screen and surveyed the crowd of Rohingya refugee children. They were watching a health and sanitation awareness film.

In that particular moment it looked like a scene from thousands of years ago," says Salam, who has documented the fallout from the crisis. The landscape, the lighting just after sunset, the bewildered look in people's eyes; it all felt surreal to me."