portraits of Rohingya women

In April 2018 Hannah travelled to refugee camps in Bangladesh through the NGO BRAC. Over one million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence across the border in neighbouring Myanmar. Hannah painted these portraits to show the human stories behind what was described as the ‘world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.’

Hannah painted the portraits using Renaissance oil painting techniques of chiaroscuro and sfumato, as though witnessing their villages razed to the ground, the flames flickering in the women’s faces.