Final Embrace

{{Short description|Photograph by Taslima Akhter}}

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{{for-multi|the 1992 film|Final Embrace (film)|the 2003 album|The Last Embrace}}

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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.{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/bangladesh-final-embrace_n_3238492.html |work=The Huffington Post |title=Heartbreaking Bangladesh Factory Photo Shows Couple In Final Embrace (Photo) |date=5 August 2013}} The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Taslima Akhter, was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo (single) in the "spot news category".{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/world-press-photo-award-winners-list-22513695 |publisher=ABC News |title=World Press Photo Award Winners List |agency=Associated Press |date=14 February 2014}}{{cite news |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/02/15/rana-plaza-images-win-world-press-photo |work=Bdnews24.com |title=Rana Plaza images win World Press Photo |date=15 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803194339/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/02/15/rana-plaza-images-win-world-press-photo |archive-date=3 August 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.daily-sun.com/details_yes_15-02-2014_2-Rana-Plaza-photos-get-World-Press-Photo-award_766_1_0_3_6.html |work=Daily Sun |title=2 Rana Plaza photos get World Press Photo award |date=15 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228053503/http://www.daily-sun.com/details_yes_15-02-2014_2-Rana-Plaza-photos-get-World-Press-Photo-award_766_1_0_3_6.html |archivedate=28 February 2014}}{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/world-press-photo-awards-announced-11480 |work=The Daily Star |title=World Press Photo Awards announced, Rana Plaza photos bring two honours to Bangladesh |date=16 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217200039/http://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/world-press-photo-awards-announced-11480 |archive-date=17 February 2014}} It was also selected among Time magazine's "Top 10 Photos of 2013".Kira Pollack, [https://time.com/3423489/time-picks-the-top-10-photos-of-2013/ "Time Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013"]. Time. Retrieved 16 November 2016.

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.{{cite magazine |last=Prashad |first=Vijay |url=http://himalmag.com/workers-yarns-vijay-prashad-review-song-of-the-shirt-seabrook/ |title=Workers' yarns |date=12 October 2015 |work=Himal Southasian}}