Final Embrace

For the 1992 film, see Final Embrace (film). For the 2003 album, see The Last Embrace.

Final Embrace is a photograph showing two victims in the rubble of the April 2013 collapse of the eight storey Rana Plaza building in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh.^[1] The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Taslima Akhter, was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo (single) in the "spot news category".^[2][3][4][5] It was also selected among Time magazine's "Top 10 Photos of 2013".^[6]

Final Embrace
Artist	Taslima Akhter
Completion date	April 2013 (2013-04)
Medium	Photograph
Subject	2013 Savar building collapse

Akhter is a member of Nari Sanghati (a women's welfare organization), and a member of leftist political group Gana Sanghati Andolon. She works as a teacher at Pathshala, a school of photography in Dhaka.^[7]

See also

• List of photographs considered the most important